Questions tagged [beamer]
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Error: Illegal Parameter number in definition of \iterate [duplicate]
I'm using beamer class and I want to add a figure to my slides, however I keep getting this error :
! Illegal parameter number in definition of \iterate.
<to be read again>
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Simple speech bubbles, arrows or balloon like shapes in beamer
I have to highlight the grammatical categories in a sentence like this:
There is a beautiful flower in the garden.
Now, by either using balloons or arrows, I have to highlight which word belongs to ...
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Beamer - compile only notes?
Is it possible to compile only beamer notes without slides?
For practice I only wanted print the notes but I could not find any way to do so.
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special circled frame number in beamer
Is it possible to customize frame number like figure below?
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Tikz animated figure in Beamer
If possible, can someone help me to animated this figure with Tikz in Beamer?
I updated starting by
1 : ( Yamada-watanab )
2: (Existence faible)
3: (unicite trajectorielle)
4: Tow edges frome (...
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Background image in beamer slides
In my presentation using Beamer, I want to use some image say village/river as a back ground in some slides. However I will write something in these slides also.
How can I do this?
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Changing font size of list items and subitems
I've noticed that when I change the font size of a list, the font size is not automatically changed for its sublists. Is there a way to change the font size for a whole list?
\documentclass{beamer}
\...
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How to Completely Remove Footer in Beamer?
As per How to Remove Footers of LaTeX Beamer Templates?, I can replace default footer with page numbers as follows:
%gets rid of bottom navigation bars
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number]{}
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Is there an overview of Beamer's slide (page) geometry anywhere?
I find this classic figure of LaTeX's page geometry very helpful:
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Latex_layout.svg
Now, I am fiddling with some beamer slides and I could really use ...
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Are there alternatives to Beamer for slides ?
I like Beamer and I use it but I wanted to check if there other classes for slides or presentation purposes to consider seriously when starting to write a presentation.
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Bifurcating a PDF: choosing a "Plan B" during a talk
I think this is a greenhorn's question, but anyway. It is sometimes difficult to measure time for a talk, according to unknown places and audiences.By this and other reasons I'd like to subtly launch ...
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Using the animate package without Adobe
I'm looking to use the animate package in beamer to display animated graphics to my class, and I was wondering if it'd be possible for the animation to work on their Chromebooks. It seems Adobe isn't ...
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How can I use todonotes with beamer?
I'm creating a presentation using beamer and I would like to denote bits that need to be done later using the todonotes package. But there appears to be some conflict between the two packages. I get ...
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Animation using a sequence of images in a single pdf file
I have a sequence of images in one pdf file. The first page in the pdf corresponds to the first step in the animation, the second page corresponds to the second step in the animation and in general, ...
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Is \mathrm really preferable to \text? [duplicate]
It seems to be the de facto standard to use \mathrm for upright letter notation in math mode as opposed to \text. Would it not be better to use \text in general?
One particular problem I am thinking ...
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Polaroid photo effect in tikz
Is there any way to make a polaroid photo effect in TikZ? I am thinking of something like this
A computer font as the caption might be better in fact but I couldn't find a suitable example online.
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Splitting TOC into two columns on single frame in beamer
I am doing a presentation but my table of content is too long with short titles for a single slide.
I was wondering if there was a way such that the table of contents appears on two columns.
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Beamer: Vertical alignment of multi-column ToC
In my LaTeX beamer presentation I have a long Table of Contents, which has been split across two columns by using the multicol package. The problem is that I have not found any way to control vertical ...
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Using pause without increasing page number
Beamer displays page number of the form: page number/ total page at the end of the slide. This page number increases every time I use the pause command. Is there a way to make all the pages creating ...
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Beamer: Changing the font size of the references using the shrink argument causes an error [duplicate]
I'm trying to change the font size of the references using the shrink of the frame argument.
However, if I run this code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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\ifnum command with multiple conditions (lower and upper bound)
First time posting here, very much a novice.
I'm creating some background templates in beamer and I can't figure out why this \ifnum command isn't working properly.
This is the code:
\...
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beamer: change individual bullet color in itemize list
Is there a "nice" way to change the color of individual bullet points?
For example imagine a list like this:
\begin{itemize}
\item A
\begin{itemize}
\item pro 1
\item con 1
\item pro ...
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Add Footer Text to All Slides in Beamer
Is there a way to append footer text to the slides in beamer? I wanted to get rid of the default footer, but I want to add a bit of additional text. Right now I have:
%gets rid of bottom navigation ...
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In beamer, how to strike through an item after displaying
In a beamer frame I have a item list
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> World peace
\item<2-> Peace in our neighbourhood
\end{itemize}
How can I strike through the first item on the second (...
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LaTeX Beamer: How to get distinct page numbers when using overlays?
The question
When I create slides for presentations in LaTeX with the Beamer class, I like to use constructions with overprint like this:
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{}
\begin{itemize}
\...
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Highlighting in Beamer using TikZ nodes
This question led to a new package:
aobs-tikz
Is it possible to alter the code in the following MWE to the effect that “ABCD” is visible on both slides but only on the second it has the red node as ...
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Beamer - ! File ended while scanning use of \next
I ran into an issue with the following code
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[fragile] % Start of frame
\begin{columns}[t]
\begin{column}{.02\textwidth}\end{column} % ...
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Proper page size for slides
I'm just going to use the standard article class to create my slides manually.
The question is, what pagesize is appropriate, and why? Should I take into account my projector's resolution and/or the ...
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How to remove buttons from the bottom of Madrid theme? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to get rid of navigation symbols in beamer?
I am not sure what they are called, but there is a bar of buttons in the Madrid theme, just above the page numbering, that ...
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How to change the custom color of the theme "Warsaw"?
Does anyone know how to change the dark blue in the theme Warsaw to other other colors?
I tried :
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=red!80!black,bg=red!20!white}
and
\setbeamertemplate{title page}{fg=red!...
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Clever beamer animation? Writing a script that changes a tikz picture in beamer?
Here is a start of an answer to this "challenge":
\documentstyle[beamer]
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\tikzset{click/.style={draw}}
\begin{tikzpicture}[start chain=going right,
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LaTeX Beamer: How to uncover formulas/text at a location of an "un'uncovered" formula/text
I have a beamer presentation in latex where I want a formula to change its coloring schema over a couple of steps (The idea is to mark the "active" part of the formula at the given moment).
When I ...
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Fitting tables into beamer
I have some tables in my presentations that are rather big. I found out how to use \resizebox to fit them into my page. Unfortunately this only works for tables that are wide. For long tables, my ...
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Escaping square braces [closed]
I want to use some text as the optional parameter to some command. The text includes square braces ([ and ]), but since the optional parameter goes within square brackets, unexpected things happen.
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Undefined control sequence \end{frame} [closed]
I'm having trouble woking with this code
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
% Class options include: notes, notesonly, handout, trans,
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How to write overlay-specification–aware macros that work w/o the beamer class
The LaTeX beamer class provides with \newcommand<> and \newenvironment<> an interface to define own commands that can deal with beamer's overlay specifications. Internally, commands ...
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How to make overlay still work inside lstlisting environment?
Problem
I want to explain C# programming language step by step using overlay in beamer.cls. But it does NOT works as shown in the following figure.
How to solve this problem?
Code Snippet
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Beamer vs. TikZ: uncover nodes step-by-step
I'm trying to uncover a TikZ image piece-by-piece like so:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{positioning}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Linearity}
\begin{center}
\begin{...
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How do I change \footnote font size in beamer presentation?
I tried all methods from this question: How to change font family in footnote?
and none of them work for me...
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How to automatically create 4:3 AND 16:9 versions of my LaTeX Beamer slides?
As someone who often gives talks abroad, I usually do not know beforehand which resolutions the projector supports. Thus, I always create both a 4:3 and a 16:9 version of my slides, using e.g.
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beamer: footnote text collides with navigation symbols
Footnotes in presentations are "usually not a good idea" (beamer manual, p. 130). Suppose, however, I have a valid reason to use the \footnote command in a beamer document (e.g., for printing a full ...
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How to add a subtitle to a beamer?
Now i have a frametitle named "AAA", but now i've got a subtitle named "bbb", is there some ways to add "bbb" as a subtitle. The following is the codes:
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}
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Use tikz external feature with beamer \only
I would like to use the beamer \only with tikz while external is activated. The problem is, that the \only get ignored. (see also the MWE).
I would love to cache the tikz pictures, because it would ...
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Kindly explain use of framezoom in beamer
I want to use framezoom to zoom in on India in this map. How can I do it? Can someone explain in a simple language (non-technical) the use of \framezoom function in beamer?
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Any way of converting ppt or odf to beamer or org?
I'm interested in converting some .ppt files into beamer/.tex (or, better, .org) format. I can find numerous discussions of converting from beamer to .ppt but not the other way round. Is there any (...
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How can I include the logo in some slides and remove in others, using beamer?
I want to include a logo in my slides. I am using this:
\logo{\includegraphics[scale=0.05]{../../Logos/CMS_logo_black.png}}
but, due to some graphics are big, in some slides the main graphic ...
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Two minipages with 0.5\textwidth each get placed one below another
This happens in the beamer class only. Does anyone know the reason behind this? I fix it by just setting both widths to 0.49\textwidth and this works but I'm still curious why this happens and if I ...
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Why is it that coloring in soul in beamer is not visible
\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{soul,color}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\hl{Hello World}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I process this with pdflatex and I do not see the expected highlight.
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Removing document icons from a Bibtex bibliography in Beamer
I'm preparing a Beamer presentation that includes (on the final slide) a short bibliography in the Harvard style (agsm). This works fine, but I find the article icons accompanying each reference ...
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How can I distribute beamer overlayareas in handout mode across multiple frames?
I have a beamer frame with an overlayarea environment. Inside that environment are some bits marked \only<n> so that they appear on consecutive slides.
\begin{frame}
\begin{theorem}
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