Once you start using LaTeX for documents, the next step is converting to beamer for presentations. This makes it extremely streamlined to convert papers into conference talks, since equations, figures and tables can be copied and pasted into your beamer slides, almost directly. No need to take screen grabs of things from LaTeX (which is a pain if you need to tweak things as you go). You can also use a single beamer slide to generate wonderful posters as well! (See this post.) All of the same typesetting rules/syntax applies from standard documents. For a beamer presentation, each slide is coded in the 'frame' environment (\begin{frame}{<write your slide title here>} \end{frame}). In the template below, I've included a few extras that I think make a presentation stand out from the standard beamer presentation: 1. A 'highlight' font, to also delineate important ideas and titles. You can find plenty of free, open source fonts if you want to change it up here. It is worth noting, that when using a non-native tex font, you must compile in LuaLaTeX rather than TeX or LaTeX. This is a drop down option in TeXShop to the right of the 'typeset' button. 2. You can also easily modify the color scheme of this template in the preamble (the specific lines are below). I find it easiest to define the two (or three, if you feel so compelled, but generally two colors is the cleanest and easiest to execute well). You can find the exact color codes for a majority of schools here. 3. Call out boxes (called 'sticky notes in the code') to highlight information on the slide. The definition of the sticky notes lives in the preamble portion of the tex file (left pane below), the code to use them in the main body of the tex file and how they look is below (right pane). I hope this template is useful and gives you a launching point to make your own impactful slides! When creating presentations remember a few key tips (whether using beamer or otherwise):
In a future tutorial, I'll cover a few more 'advanced' beamer topics that I have found to be useful: making slides to be 'click through', animating slides using tikz, and embedding videos. Keep an eye out for that! Want to see something else related to beamer? Drop me a note and I'll see what I can put together!
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