Beamer
Beamer is an open source LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides.[1][2][3] This software is mostly used to create slides with mathematical formulas.[4] It also supports many compile options. By using Beamer, all slides will be generated in PDF style.
| A modified Latex Beamer example.jpg LaTeX Beamer presentation screenshot | |
| Developer(s) | Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, Vedran Miletić |
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| Initial release | March 2003 |
| Stable release | 3.55 / December 2, 2018 |
| Written in | LaTeX |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows |
| Platform | TeX Live, MikTeX |
| Available in | English, German, Croatian, Serbian |
| Type | Presentation software |
| License | LaTeX Project Public License, GNU General Public License |
| Website | ctan |
References and notes
- ↑ Mertz, A., & Slough, W. (2005). Beamer by example. The PracTEX Journal.
- ↑ Batts, C. T. (2007). A beamer tutorial in Beamer. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Computer Science.
- ↑ Oaks, A. (2009). LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations. University of California, Berkeley.
- ↑ This is the biggest difference between Microsoft PowerPoint and LibreOffice.
Further reading
- Voß, H. (2012). Presentations with LaTeX. Berlin: Lehmanns Media. ISBN 9783865414960.
- Voß, H. (2011). PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TEX and LATEX. UIT Cambridge Ltd..
Related pages
- CTAN - repository including further details of Beamer
- SATySFi - open source software aiming to replace LaTeX and Beamer
Other websites
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The English Wikibook LaTeX has more information on: |
- Beamer home page
- beamerposter – a Beamer extension for scientific conference posters in DIN-A0 size or bigger
- Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, Vedran Miletić (2015) User's guide – from www.ctan.org
- Beamer Theme Matrix
- wiki2beamer: Tool to create Beamer presentations from a wiki-like syntax
- Dohmen, Klaus (2010) Dual Screen Presentations with the LaTeX Beamer Class under X
- Beamer2Thesis
- BeamerikZ - A Latex class for creating TikZ based Beamer presentations
Tutorials
- Introduction to Beamer – How to make a presentation Archived 2013-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Beamer Presentations: A 5-Part Tutorial for Beginners (Overleaf)
- Using beamer.cls: "An intentionally incomplete guide" from LaTeX for Logicians
- Beamer by Example from PracTEX Journal, many examples of both TeX source and formatted output
- Introduction to Beamer on Wikibooks
- A presentation using the LaTeX Beamer class (short guide – samples)