easy list with beamer?

Can we use in beamer? Is there any efficient way to itemize and sub itemize in beamer?? The following code not working

\documentclass[mathserif,serif]{beamer}
\usepackage[at]{easylist}

\begin{document}
\author[Nck]{Newbie}
\title[Eco'trics]{Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics}
\subtitle{TA}
\institute[Blah]{Learning Univ}
\subject{Econometrics}

\begin{frame}{Variance and Covariance}

\begin{easylist}[itemize]
@\textbf{Def 4.2.1} -
\begin{align*}
V(X) &= E[ X - E(X)]^2\\
&=E(X^2) - [E(X)]^2
\end{align*}
@ \textbf{Thm 4.2.1} - If $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are constants, we have:
$V(\alpha X + \beta) = \alpha^2V(X)$
@\textbf{Covariance}, deonoted by $Cov(X,Y)$ or $\sigma_{xy}$ is a measure of the relationship between two random variables X and Y and is defined as :
@@ $Cov(X,Y) = E[(X-E(X))(Y-E(Y))] = E(XY) - E(X) E(Y)$

\end{easylist}
\end{frame}


Also whats the use of Subject? Does it appear anywhere on the beamer?

• In your code you are two \begin{document}. For use of the easylist see en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/List_Structures, but in beamer is more appropriate to use itemize/enumerate/description as the provided by beamer package – Zarko Jul 8 '14 at 18:58
• You should place the meta data (\author, \title, \subtitle, \institute, \subject, ...) in the document preamble and then check the output PDF properties to see where they are used. – Werner Jul 8 '14 at 20:25
• yes, i read this. Thank You @Zarko!! But I use itemize so much that I was wondering if easy list could be integrated with beamer!! – Nck Jul 8 '14 at 20:27
• @Werner - Cool! :) – Nck Jul 8 '14 at 20:32
• @Nck: From p 3 of the easylist documentation: "Every sequence of §’s must terminate with a space, otherwise numbers won’t be printed." Here § represents the character used to denote an "\item" - @ in your case. – Werner Jul 9 '14 at 6:06

The easylist package uses catcode tricks, which don't work properly with beamer's usual frame processing code. (Same as verbatim.)

To fix this (but slow down the output slightly), write

\begin{frame}[fragile]{...}


instead. Fixing the original example for typos and simplifying it a bit:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[at]{easylist}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[fragile]{Variance and Covariance}

\begin{easylist}[itemize]
@ \textbf{Def 4.2.1} -
\begin{align*}
V(X) &= E[ X - E(X)]^2\\
&=E(X^2) - [E(X)]^2
\end{align*}
@ \textbf{Thm 4.2.1} - If $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are constants, we have:
$V(\alpha X + \beta) = \alpha^2V(X)$
@ \textbf{Covariance}, deonoted by $Cov(X,Y)$ or $\sigma_{xy}$ is a measure of the relationship between two random variables X and Y and is defined as :
@@ $Cov(X,Y) = E[(X-E(X))(Y-E(Y))] = E(XY) - E(X) E(Y)$

\end{easylist}
\end{frame}
\end{document}