Questions tagged [beamer]
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Disable color transition effect block Beamer Latex
First of all im thanking y'all for your time and patience with a Latex Beginner.
Im currently working on a template for a presentation in Latex Beamer.
My question is: Does anyone know how to get of ...
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Compile LX fonts demo on LuaLaTeX
I want to compile the LX fonts demo on LuaLaTeX. Because I would want to use this font for my future presentations. Furthermore, I only use LuaLaTeX.
I'm not sure how to correctly proceed to rearrange ...
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tcolorboxes in beamer
This code isn´t working. Can anyone please tell me, why this tcolorbox isn´t working? (In documentclass "article" it is working, but not in "beamer").
\documentclass[aspectratio=...
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Watermark using background package doesn't work in Xepersian
I tried to add watermark to my beamer using the followng (that can be found in this post)
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{background}
\backgroundsetup{
placement=center,
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Error "Too many math alphabets used in version normal. \end{frame}" while using mathfrak inside theorem in beamer latex [closed]
I am getting the following error message "Too many math alphabets used in version normal. \end{frame}" while using mathfrak{} inside theorem environment in beamer latex. I am using the ...
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Align items horizontally to equation above
I have an equation and a list explaining notation below.
Issue: I want the items to have the same margin at the left as the equation. See picture and MWE below.
MWE
\documentclass[10pt,usenames,...
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Suppress vertical space at beginning of macro when there is no preceding paragraph
I want to create a variant of the itemize command for Beamer that spreads the items vertically. This should increase the space between items as well as to preceding text.
With other words, I want a ...
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\pause in beamer us changing the theorem counters which is creating issues
During a presentation, I asked for a beamer template from my friend, and he suggested me to use this. I went ahead with it. I got a suggestion from my supervisor to use \pause whenever necessary and ...
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Cannot hide forest generated subtrees [closed]
I use beamer with the forest package and wanted to show the step-by-step construction of a tree. I am not quite familiar with TikZ and forest. I downloaded a solution to my problem and changed long ...
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Mark (only) handout slides in handout mode in beamer
Dear LaTeX / beamer enthusiasts
For our courses, we have a large repository of LaTeX slides using the great beamer package. Some slides are only included in the handout, others are available in ...
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Why does this Beamer plain option only works when it's not the first slide?
I'm trying to adapt an unofficial Beamer template for my university (GitHub, Overleaf). Right now, when I try to compile this MWE:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme[bgphoto]{polimi}
\title[MS thesis]{...
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In LaTeX beamer, show subitems one by one
I am attempting this:
\begin{frame}
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> Hello
\item<2-> World
\begin{itemize}[<.(1)->]
\item A
\item B
\item C
\end{...
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Setting beamer label from xparse option
I want to write a custom environment that handles some layouts that default beamer slides aren't designed to do.
I use xparse's \NewDocumentEnvironment to achieve this, but have problems passing down ...
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Beamer - How to change section and subsection text color
I would like to have a yellow text instead of a white one for the section and subsection text. Using \setbeamercolor{section}{fg =yellow} doesn't change those colours
\documentclass[t,compress,squeeze,...
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Use same font in text and math operators sin, cos, log etc
I am making my presentation in beamer and want to use a sans font for text and mathpazo font for math. I would like, though, that operator names are by default set in the same sans font as my text, ...
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How to remove white space from beamer background? [duplicate]
I'd like to include a background image in a beamer file.
However, a white space occurs on the left and on the top the image, which I cannot remove.
How to get rid of this gap or indentation?
\...
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How to define font to the current frame font size
I have a Beamer template I defined (to be compatible with the guidelines of my organization) and bullet points have to have the same size, whatever the list level.
In the template, I went for the ...
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Only, Uncover and Visible Beamer overlay commands within a minted codeblock
I want to explain a complicated piece of LaTeX code in a presentation by using beamer's overlays within a minted codeblock. Existing solutions I found are not sufficient because of two main issues:
I ...
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Defining command for beginning/spliting frame
Because of how I use beamer, I would ideally like not to use \begin{frame} and \end{frame} but rather just the command \fr for whenever I start a new frame.
Using this answer, what I have right now is ...
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Is it possible to put a picture on the header of a slide in beamer? [duplicate]
I'm trying to put a logo on the top right of the headers of all my slides (c.f. the following picture) but I have absolutely no idea how to do it. Can someone help me about it please.
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How to blur covered elements in Beamer instead of making them invisible or transparent
Default behavior of Beamer for covered elements is to make them invisible. You can change this to making them transparent by
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\setbeamercovered{transparent}
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Beamer metropolis theme: How to add smoothbars progress indicators?
Is there a ready way to add the smoothbars subsection progress dots to metropolis?
Alternatively, is there a different minimalist theme that easily incorporates smoothbars? Thx
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Beamer figures shifting slide by slide [duplicate]
I'm trying to update a figure over several slides. I have four pictures (all the exact same width and height). I want to display the first image on the first slide, the second image on the second ...
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Change beamer compiled defaults to Finnish
I have a beamer title page
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[finnish]{babel}
\usetheme{Bergen}
\usecolortheme{wolverine}
\title{Epic title}
\author{vahvero}
\institute{Epic institute}
\date{\today}
\...
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Beamer makes \pgfplotsinvokeforeach go insane
I am trying to parse a table for a scatter plot using \pgfplotsinvokeforeach, but it fails in beamer, saying in the process that there is «Illegal parameter number in definition of \iterate». I have ...
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Change equation using beamer without reformatting slide
I am writing a presentation in beamer and I want to add a box round an equation and then change the equation. The code below does this:
\begin{frame}{Fishing mortality $F$}
\onslide<2->{
Fishing ...
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fontdimen2 in Beamer [duplicate]
How can we make the effect of the command fontdimen2\font=[size] globally available in Beamer? The effect of this command seems to only affect the main text but not any other elements.
Here is my MWE ...
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Try to generate frame title followed by a underline
I manage to set the frame title followed by a underline, it does not seem to be working, the line does not stretch to the edge:
\newcommand{\titlerule}[2][0ex]{\leaders\hbox{{\color{PrimaryColor}\rule[...
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I cannot get a .pdf file generated by most Beamer themes to print using Adobe. What am I doing wrong?
I created my lecture notes using the CambridgeUS theme. My students cannot get the .pdf file to print from Adobe. I tried printing my notes from Adobe on two different printers and I get the following ...
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Use beamer overlays in "normal" latex document
I have some pretty complicated tikz figures with a lot of overlays in external .tex files included in my beamer presentation.
To write my paper, it would be very convenient for me to just "pick&...
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Beamer: Show frame if it is defined
When constructing larger presentations with beamer, I often split them into several files on which I work individually. For the sake of an MWE, it might look something like this:
\documentclass{...
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onslide and overprint: manual animation [duplicate]
I am on a mac using Preview, so the gif approach doesn't work for me when animating images in beamer.
Instead, I am using \onslide<> and \includegraphics.
Since I have 10+ images, I was ...
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Beamer zooming - change color and depth of zoom outline?
I want to make the outline of the zoom feature bigger in the first slide where I can click on it.
I use this minimal working example:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\...
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How to make minted work inside custom environments?
I have am using the macro below and sometimes I the content I pass in via the third argument contains a minted environment. However, the code doesn't compile. How can I fix this issue?
\newcommand{\...
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change bar in metropolis theme title
I use this code for a metropolis beamer presentation (thanks to a user here!)
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{metropolis}
\definecolor{myblue}{RGB}{76,138,225}
\setbeamercolor{palette primary}{bg=...
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Change background in the same frame
I was wondering whether would be possible to change the background in the same frame. I mean something like the following code
\documentclass{beamer}
\defbeamertemplate{background}{back1}{--some stuff-...
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LaTeX Beamer Template: Why aren't title and subititle/auther info aligned?
I am relatively new to creating my own beamer template and therefore my title page looks like a huge mess, mostly because the subtitlte and title are not left-aligned, as they should be. Similarly, my ...
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LaTeX beamer which style is this?
I have got a lecture and there were the following frames used in the presentation. Can anyone please tell me which style this is, because I really would like to use this as well.
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Alter \temporal command behaviour in the handout mode
I see that using the \temporal command, I can put three different texts on slides.
So if I write:
\temporal<2>{First}{Second}{End},
the last word (End) will appear in all the slides after the ...
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Issues with beamer document class [closed]
I’m trying to make a presentation in Latex for the first time. To get started, I copied the following code from Wikipedia:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\title{Presentation on XXX topic}
\author{AAA}
\...
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Title over multicolumn array and side-by-side arrays
I want to add in a presentation (beamer) 4 multicolumn (4 columns each) arrays side-by-side and give a title over each array. What I tried for my article was this
\documentclass[12pt]{extbook}
\...
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Fill left and right with Words keeping figure in the centre
I was trying to design a frame in beamer as follows:
A graphics at center rendered by tikzfill within a polygon circle, ellipse etc.
And some text on left and right of the graphics to fill the blank ...
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Beamer custom breakable box
In this case I need a breakable for custom example that I could break part of contents and move to next frame.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{default}
\usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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How to extend rule until the end of beamer slide?
I want to include a rule from a logo in a beamer slide until the right margin of the slide.
However, when I increase the width of rule, the rule is sent to below the image instead of continuing toward ...
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Problems with numbered custom styles of theorems beamer
I try to use my custom style in beamer documnet, if I use not numbered definitions or another my custom style for theorems and exmaples
\begin{myDefinition*}{Sample Definition}
This is a sample ...
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Why does this code generate a DVI file that can't be opened?
I am generating a .DVI file with MiKTeX, that can't be opened.
By looking online, I found this reply:
https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=500
suggesting the problem could be related to PostScript. ...
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How can I have more than six itemize environments in beamer?
When I have more than six itemize environments I get an error: ! LaTeX Error: Too deeply nested. A runnable example below. What am I doing wrong?
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
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Replacing a block of code with a macro (Beamer)
I use a block of code frequently when I use the Beamer package.
\RequirePackage{etoolbox}
\documentclass[handout, 14pt]{beamer}
\usecolortheme{seahorse}
\begin{document}
# Start of the block
\def\...
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Create an appendix title frame with just a title in beamer class
I want a section frame for the appendix, but only with a centered title, my normal title page and the baseline of all other frames with author, title, date and slide number shall remain unaffected.
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How avoid empty slide with TikZ-overlay footnote in beamer
Motivation
I want to maintain a footnote in beamer through some slides. To avoid jumping I tried to place them with TikZ (which works) but the height of the inline math causes empty slides.
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