Get To Beamer

Beamer is a LaTeX package for generating presentation slide decks. One of its nicest features is that it can take advantage of LaTeX's powerful typesetting system and all the other packages in its ecosystem. For example, I often use LaTeX's listings package in Beamer presentations that include code.

Beamer is a LaTeX package for generating presentation slide decks. One of its nicest features is that it can take advantage of LaTeX's powerful typesetting system and all the other packages in its ecosystem. For example, I often use LaTeX's listings package in Beamer presentations that include code.

Beamer is a powerful and flexible LaTeX class to create great looking presentations. This article outlines the basis steps to making a Beamer slideshow: creating the title page, adding a logo, highlighting important points, making a table of contents and adding effects to the slideshow.

▶ The only difference with a normal LATEX{} document is the beamer document class, and the use of frame environments for each slide. ▶ It is often useful to have two columns on a slide (e.g. an image on the left and some bullet points on the right). \item First point.

Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides, with a wide range of templates and a set of features for making slideshow effects.

There are many advantages to using Beamer for creating presentations. Among them, we can cite, for instance, Beamer compatibility with different LaTeX compilers, such as pdflatex, dvips, and lualatex. Furthermore, most of the widely known LaTeX commands and packages are available to use with Beamer.

If it's a presentation that (1) is math/science heavy, (2) needs to look a very specific way, and (3) no one else will be using it, then I think beamer is a good choice. In my use cases (which are obviously specific to me), invariably someone wants a copy of my PowerPoint. Sending them a tex file would not go well.