University:
University of California, Berkeley
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COMPSCI 164 | Programming Languages and Compilers
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2024
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StellarSymphony

What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays Benefits Drawbacks Benefits Professional looking presentations Written in LATEX Nice overlay effects Automatic navigation bars LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays Benefits Drawbacks Drawbacks Requires installation of Beamer package and dependencies No fancy animations (though some would consider this a benefit) LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays What You Need In order to use Beamer, you will need to install the Beamer package and its dependencies (pgf and xcolor) on your machine. You can get Beamer (and its dependencies) from SourceFource at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer/ LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Requirements Sample Preamble \documentclass[compress]{beamer} \usetheme{Antibes} % Beamer theme v 3.0 \usecolortheme{lily} % Beamer color theme Specify the “beamer” document class Specify the theme to be used Specify a color scheme (optional) LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Preamble Options Layout Options There are many options to pass to the document class declaration. Some common ones are: [slidestop] - puts frame titles on the top left corner (default=[slidescentered]). [compress] - makes all navigation bars as small as possible (default=[uncompressed]). [red] changes navigation bars and titles to reddish color. blue: Default color scheme red brown blackandwhite: Good for transparencies LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Preamble Options Presentation Themes There are quite a few Beamer themes available for use. This presentation uses “Warsaw”, but there are many others: W/o navigation bar: default, boxes, Bergen, Madrid, Pittsburgh, Rochester With a treelike navigation bar: Antibes, JuanLesPins, Montpellier. With a TOC sidebar: Berkeley, PaloAlto, Goettingen, Marburg, Hannover With a mini frame navigation: Berlin, Ilmenau, Dresden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Singapore, Szeged With section and subsection titles: Copenhagen, Luebeck, Malmoe, Warsaw LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Frames (Slides) Sample Frame \section{Beamer Structure} % For navigation \subsection{Frames} % For navigation \begin{frame} \frametitle{Frames (Slides)} \framesubtitle{Sample Frame} ... slide contents ... \end{frame} LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Frames (Slides) Frame Syntax Frames can be written in both as environments and as commands. As an environment: \begin{frame}[options] ... slide contents ... \end{frame} As a command: \frame[options]{ ... slide contents ... } LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Frames (Slides) Frame Options Frames can be given quite a few options: [containsverbatim] - for using verbatim environment and \verb command. [allowframebreaks] for automatic split of frames if the contents do not fit in a single slide. [shrink] for shrinking the contents to fit in a single slide. [squeeze] for squeezing vertical space. LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Links Link Commands Frames can be given quite a few options: Beamer also provides functionality for linking between slides \hyperlink{targetname}{\beamerbutton{text}} to create link \hypertarget{targetname}{text} to create target For example: Next Page LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations What is Beamer? What You Need Beamer Structure Framed Text Overlays The Preamble Frames Links Links Button Examples This text is a link target. Beamer offers several buttons for use with linking, including: Click Here \beamerbutton{Click Here} Click Here \beamergotobutton{Click Here} Click Here \beamerreturnbutton{Click Here} LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations