A Beamer tutorial using Beamer
A Quick Introduction
André Loureiro
School of Economics - University of Edinburgh
October 2012
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Outline
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What is Beamer?
Beamer is a document class in LATEX that produces beautiful,
clean and standard academic presentation. (Actually, LATEX is
intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the
power of TEX.)
Virtually, all academic presentation in fields that use maths in
some extent use Beamer.
Very convenient, since the same LATEX code of your paper is
used and a very portable PDF file is the final output.
And as in a usual LATEX document, it allows global AND local
control of layout, colour and fonts.
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What is Beamer?
Beamer is a document class in LATEX that produces beautiful,
clean and standard academic presentation. (Actually, LATEX is
intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the
power of TEX.)
Virtually, all academic presentation in fields that use maths in
some extent use Beamer.
Very convenient, since the same LATEX code of your paper is
used and a very portable PDF file is the final output.
And as in a usual LATEX document, it allows global AND local
control of layout, colour and fonts.
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What is Beamer?
Beamer is a document class in LATEX that produces beautiful,
clean and standard academic presentation. (Actually, LATEX is
intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the
power of TEX.)
Virtually, all academic presentation in fields that use maths in
some extent use Beamer.
Very convenient, since the same LATEX code of your paper is
used and a very portable PDF file is the final output.
And as in a usual LATEX document, it allows global AND local
control of layout, colour and fonts.
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What is Beamer?
Beamer is a document class in LATEX that produces beautiful,
clean and standard academic presentation. (Actually, LATEX is
intended to provide a high-level language that accesses the
power of TEX.)
Virtually, all academic presentation in fields that use maths in
some extent use Beamer.
Very convenient, since the same LATEX code of your paper is
used and a very portable PDF file is the final output.
And as in a usual LATEX document, it allows global AND local
control of layout, colour and fonts.
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Use Beamer in 4 steps
1 Install a LATEX editor.
2 Install MikTEX: Provides a set of tool necessary to prepare
documents using the TEX/LATEX markup language. (It
automatically patches to the LATEX editor)
3 Use MikTEX to download and install beamer package. (If
MikTEX version is recent, once the “usepackage” command is
used for the first time, it is automatically downloaded and
installed.)
4 Use the correspondent TeX file of this presentation as a
template. (Use “A LATEX tutorial using LATEX” as a companion.)
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Equations
As in any LATEX document, it is very handy to write equations.
Q = α + βP + γI + (1)
n(n + 1)
1 + 2 + ··· + n = (2)
2
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Graphs
Maybe a graph is necessary to make a point.
market.jpg
Figure: Supply X Demand
Next Graph
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Graphs
Or multiple graphs:
Figure: Two Markets
market.jpg market2.jpg
(a) Market 1 (b) Market 2
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Tables
Table: Demand Function Estimation
(1) (2) (3)
Demand Demand Demand
(Domestic)
Constant 0.87** 0.71** 0.91***
(0.41) (0.27) (0.00)
Price -0.87*** -0.71*** -0.60***
(0.21) (0.17) (0.00)
Income 8.11*** 9.34***
(2.20) (0.00)
Observations 5435 5435 2319
R2 0.90 0.92 0.91
*** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1
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Links
Sometimes you need to come back to a slide to make a point
clear.
market2.jpg
Figure: Supply X Demand
Compare this figure to the previous one.
Previous Graph
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Links
Or we may want to show a “hidden” slide if the audience have
some questions about a specific issue.
Theorem
1
1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + ... =
4
Proof
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Lists
itemize
A
B
enumerate
1 A
2 B
description
My First Item A
My Second Item B
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Overlays
\pause command
Alert
Specifications
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Frame Structures
Columns
Blocks
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Notes
market.jpg
Figure: Supply X Demand
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Additional Information
Proof.
By authority, the theorem is true.
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Columns
If you write this:
\begin{columns}
\column{0.5\textwidth}
My First Column
\column{0.5\textwidth}
My Second Column
\end{columns}
You get:
My First Column My Second Column
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Blocks
If you write this:
\begin{block}{My Block}
This an interesting way to highlight some specific point.
\end{block}
You get:
My Block
This an interesting way to highlight some specific point.
Some specific types of blocks are: theorem, proof, corollary,
example, etc.
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Blocks and Columns
You can combine both commands:
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{2.8cm}
\begin{block}{Smaller Column 1}Some text here.\end{block}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{5.5cm}
\begin{block}{Bigger Column 2}Maybe something else here.\end{block}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
You get:
Smaller Column 1 Bigger Column 2
Some text here. Maybe something else here.
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Alert Current Item
If you type:
\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Micro
\item Macro
\item Econometrics
\end{itemize}
You get:
Micro
Macro
Econometrics
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Alert Current Item
If you type:
\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Micro
\item Macro
\item Econometrics
\end{itemize}
You get:
Micro
Macro
Econometrics
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Alert Current Item
If you type:
\begin{itemize}[<+-| alert@+>]
\item Micro
\item Macro
\item Econometrics
\end{itemize}
You get:
Micro
Macro
Econometrics
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Specification
If you type:
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-3> Item A
\item<2-4> Item B
\item<3-5> Item C
\item<4-> Item D
\item<-4> Item E
\end{itemize}
You get:
Item A
Item B
Item C
Item D
Item E
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Specification
If you type:
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-3> Item A
\item<2-4> Item B
\item<3-5> Item C
\item<4-> Item D
\item<-4> Item E
\end{itemize}
You get:
Item A
Item B
Item C
Item D
Item E
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Specification
If you type:
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-3> Item A
\item<2-4> Item B
\item<3-5> Item C
\item<4-> Item D
\item<-4> Item E
\end{itemize}
You get:
Item A
Item B
Item C
Item D
Item E
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Specification
If you type:
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-3> Item A
\item<2-4> Item B
\item<3-5> Item C
\item<4-> Item D
\item<-4> Item E
\end{itemize}
You get:
Item A
Item B
Item C
Item D
Item E
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Specification
If you type:
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-3> Item A
\item<2-4> Item B
\item<3-5> Item C
\item<4-> Item D
\item<-4> Item E
\end{itemize}
You get:
Item A
Item B
Item C
Item D
Item E
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