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{beamer-metropolis} is for questions about the Metropolis theme for beamer presentations.

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Footnote in a section title in Beamer

I'm trying to have a footnote to explain a joke (it's so bad that it needs to be explained) in the title of a section in a Beamer presentation with the Metropolis theme. The obvious thing to do works ...
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Bold font in Metropolis looks too heavy

I use \usepackage[sfdefault,light,lining]{FiraSans} to reproduce the default font of the Beamer Metropolis theme. I followed this question for this. However, the bold font looks too heavy. When I ...
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How to align authors and title in beamer title page?

I would like to add multiple authors with their affiliations in columns in the beamer title page. I am using the metropolis theme. It almost works, but the aligment with the first author should be ...
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Surpress or hide page numbers without losing metropolis theme or miniframes

I am building a template presentation in Latex. I want to use the Metropolis beamer theme, as well as the miniframes for cool navigation. I am trying to put off my page numbers, but I can't find out ...
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Change background color of the title page in metropolis

I am trying to adapt an older beamer template to the metropolis theme. Originally the titlepage was colored by the use of a background image. With code: \usebackgroundtemplate% {% \...
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Beamer Metropolis top bar Height and Transparency

For the beamer metropolis theme: How to make the top bar taller? and is there a way to make it transparent (perhaps using TiKz)?
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Removing sectionpage bullet from navigation bar - beamer-Metropolis

I want to have sectionpages (sectionpage = progressbar) in my slides. However, I don't want them to appear in the navigation bar. Is there any way to do it? Here is a MWE: \documentclass[xcolor={...
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Beamer theme Metropolis changes TikZ draw

I am having trouble adding a TikZ graphic to my Beamer presentation which uses the theme Metropolis. Here is an example of the issue: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage{...
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Positioning the logo in the first page of the presentation, near the title of the conference

I would like to reproduce the following slide in the first page of my presentation: (the light blue block would be the conference logo) I'm using the following theme: \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme[...
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beamer \mode* metropolis theme and standout

When using \mode* it seems that this confuses beamer with the metropolis theme when using the standout-frame option such that after using standout all succeeding frames stay in this standout mode ...
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Change the font inside `tabular` globally, in LaTeX Beamer (metropolis)

I have a presentation in beamer with the metropolis theme. All the content of all tables should be written in mono/typewriter font. Ideally I would prefer to make the change globally, inside the ...
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How do can you add titlecaps to starred sections in beamer metropolis theme?

I am trying to add title caps to all section titles and frame titles in my presentation. If I use only numbered sections, everything works as expected but starred sections cannot be redefined the same ...
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How can I change the color of the line in the title page when using beamer?

I am using a beamer and the sample code is as below. I want to change the color of the line on the title page which is orange. (to navy) Is there any way I could do this? Or is there any way I can ...
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Making navigation using short section's title and section's first page using section's long title

Currently, my document only uses a section's short title and looks like following I would like to have it, however, like following My doument declaration \documentclass[11pt]{beamer} \usetheme[...
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Subsections and section indicators in metropolis (beamer)

I've added section indicators following this answer. But, it appears that when I have a section with two subsections, I have three levels like so: I basically always have an extra level for no reason....
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Beamer Metropolis progress bar: Use page number instead of frame number

In Beamer's metropolis theme, is it possible to set the progress bar so that it tracks progress using page numbers instead of frame numbers? In the following example, the progress bar doesn't change ...
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Appending something to the body of every frame

Is it possible to append something to the body of every frame in beamer? Specifically, I would like to include \par\unskip right before \end{frame} so that the bottom margin of full slides is the same ...
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Reproduce this slide - tikz

I would like to reproduce the attached slide in beamer. Of course, I don't ask you to make it for me. I'm just wondering if you are aware about which package I should use to make the blue big arrow on ...
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Unbold title and section labels for Beamer ppt [closed]

I've got a strange issue where the title and frame/slide titles are all bolded and closer to the border of the slide, yet I did not command this. To help clarify my issue, I have attached a screenshot ...
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Can't install Beamer Theme on Manjaro Linux

I have an problem with latex. I want to use this beamertheme: https://github.com/matze/mtheme I followed the installation guide, but it didn't worked. I get an error: ''' (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/...
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Beamer theme Metropolis conflicts with option in epstopdf.cfg

The following MWE fails in texlive 2021 (pdflatex): \documentclass[handout,10pt]{beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usetheme{metropolis} \title{Testing} \author{Author} \date{\today} \begin{...
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Center two pictures of different sizes in beamer

I have the following code for a beamer presentation: \begin{columns}[T] \begin{column}{.6\textwidth} \includegraphics[scale=.22]{img/towards} \end{column} \begin{column}{.4\textwidth} ...
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Beamer: How do I remove the gap/margin on top of slides? [duplicate]

I have the following beamer slide: \documentclass[10pt]{beamer} \usetheme{metropolis} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{Pic test} \begin{minipage}{0.5\textwidth} \begin{itemize} \item don't ...
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Character spacing in math mode in metropolis theme

I'm having trouble with the way the characters are spaced in the Metropolis Beamer theme, while using the serif font for math mode. Here's a MWE: \documentclass[10pt]{beamer} \usetheme[progressbar = ...
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Bibliography in beamer-metropolis

I'm using beamer slides, and trying to generate the bibliography, but the output I get prints only the item label, not the actual bibliographic information (e.g., "surname, name year." \...
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How to add advisors to title page in a predefined theme

I am using the metropolis theme to create a beamer presentation. I would like to include in the title page, on the left, my name as main author, and on the right, a column named "advisors" ...
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Error Compiling Beamer Presentation

With due respect, my file having the following environment: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{beamerthemeshadow} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{epsfig} \usepackage{subfigure} \usepackage{amsfonts} ...
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"titleformat plain" from Metropolis Beamer theme does not work

I added titleformat=smallcaps since I want to set all titles to be small caps. However, I would like the text in standout frames to be regular, so I added titleformat plain=regular, as described in ...
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Beamer: Adding logo to frametitle (Modifying Metropolis)

I am trying to modify the metropolis theme to include a logo on the right-hand side. However, whenever I do this it pushes the title text up and I cannot seem to fix this. I want the logo on the ...
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beamer theme change of outline in to the left side

How to get the outline of a ppt on the left side of the beamer like this I have attached an image: Is there any package that can convert this thing? I know the outline are on the above on the top ...
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how to apply different background when plain vs footer frame option in beamer?

I am using beamer with a footer from metropolis theme for my presentations. I also need to add a background to fit with my lab standards. Since I am using a footer, I some empty space left for the ...
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How to remove locally overfull \hbox warning in beamer frametitle?

I am preparing some slides for a lab meeting, and I am using mainly beamer/metropolis. I need to add a logo at top right corner of the frametitle to fit my lab standards. So I used the command \...
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Add only subsections under current section to the section page in metropolis theme at beginning of sections [closed]

I'd like to add the list of all subsections in the current section to the section page at the beginning of each section. I am using the metropolis theme. I did some research and found a way to do so ...
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noframenumbering in Metropolis' standout frames

I would like to make it optional to exclude the standout frames from the beamer theme Metropolis from the frame count. This works as long as I write my frame options as noframenumbering, standout. But ...
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Automate transition on slides using Beamer

I have multiple images that I would like to show on a single slide in beamer. These images are in fact related and I would like to simulate a GIF by transitioning between these images. Currently, I am ...
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Add vertical strut to Beamer Metropolis' footer

The beamer theme metropolis includes an option to show frame numbers as a fraction of total frames. But it does not add a vertical strut for the eventuality that someone (me!!) would add additional ...
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Math mode in a `tikz` diagram

I want a tikz diagram, with an arrow connecting bit of text with a bit of math above it. I had the following, but it doesn't work once "Math" is in a math environment (i.e.:$Math$): \...
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How can I change the color of a plain frame in beamer with Metropolis theme?

I'm trying to make some slides for an upcoming presentation with customized colors for the Metropolis theme. However, I'm having some trouble with changing the color for a plain frame (\plain). My ...
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Beamer metropolis theme: How can I add a paragraph below the horizontal bar in section page? [duplicate]

Below is the code from the metropolis theme that is responsible for formatting each section page appearing in the presentation: \setbeamertemplate{section page}{ \begin{center} % add center if ...
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Beamer's Metropolis theme issue with main page and section pages

Background Story: Everything was fine and well until I converted the TeX file to PDF where I observed the following patterns seen below. Furthermore, I tried to run the TeX file again and again and ...
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Subsection not showing in Beamer

I am new to Beamer and I've been experimenting with these line of codes but I have an issue with the subsection not displaying when I run the code but what appears to happen is that this line of code ...
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How can I center an image in the frametitle?

I'm using the metropolis theme in Beamer and I would like to center (in the space) a house image in the frametitle. How could I do that? Below there is a MWE. Thanks a lot. \documentclass[t,...
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why does \draw not work in the axis environment in the metropolis theme?

Here is a MWE: \documentclass[]{beamer} \usepackage{fontspec} \usetheme{metropolis} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=newest} \begin{document} \begin{frame}[t] \begin{...
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Italics in the title in Beamer Metropolis theme

I am using metropolis theme in beamer but I want to italicize particular words in the title. What I have below doesn't produce the right result. {\protect\textit{special italicized words}} doesn't ...
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Disable hyphenation in Metropolis' frametitles

How do I disable hyphenation in in the otherwise very nice Beamer theme Metropolis? I have tried looking through all of Metropolis' code relating to the frametitle, but I can't figure out what ...
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change figure caption size doesn't work

I am using this code (metropolis) . Whatever I used in order to change the figure caption size, doesn't work. \documentclass[10pt] {beamer} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage {graphicx, ...
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Include Metropolis theme's standout frames in framecount

The Metropolis beamer theme excludes its standout frames from the frame count with the frame option noframenumbering. Is there any way to override this? Preferably without rewriting the whole standout ...
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Add background to `standout` frame with Metropolis

I'd like to set a background image for a standout frame in my Beamer presentation with Metropolis theme. The meaning of adding the background is that it has transparencies, so it should appear like a ...
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Bold vectors in Metropolis beamer theme

On overleaf, is there a way to set the vectors in the Metropolis beamer theme in bold italics? All the usual ways (e.g. renewing the command as a '\boldsymbol{{#1}}') do not seem to work. It actually ...
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Beamer Metropolis Theme clashes with tikz, removes content from tikzpicture

Please find below a MWE. (Un-)commenting \usetheme{metropolis} removes content from the tikzpicture, and I am truly puzzled as to why that is. I am using XeLaTeX to compile. Thanks! \documentclass[...