Beamer 8k
Jenifer Griffard
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 first command after the preamble, \frame\titlepage, generates the title page. This page may contain information about the author, institution, event, logo, and so on. See the title page section for a more complete example.
It is worth noting that in beamer the basic container is a frame. A frame is not exactly equivalent to a slide, one frame may contain more than one slides. For example, a frame with several bullet points can be set up to produce a new slide to reveal each consecutive bullet point.
Usually when you have a long presentation, it's convenient to divide it into sections or even subsections. In this case, you can add a table of contents at the beginning of the document. Here is an example:
It's also possible to put the table of contents at the beginning of each section and highlight the title of the current section. Just add the code below to the preamble of your LaTeX document:
In the code there's a list, declared by the \beginitemize \enditemize commands, and next to each item is a number enclosed in two special characters: < >. This will determine in which slide the element will appear, if you append a - at the end of the number, the item will be shown in that and the subsequent slides of the current frame, otherwise it will appear only in that slide. Check the animation for a better understanding of this.
These effects can be applied to any type of text, not only to the itemize environment. There's a second command whose behaviour is similar, but it's simpler since you don't have to specify the slides where the text will be unveiled.
If you want to highlight a word or a phrase within a paragraph, the command \alert will change the style of the word inside the braces. The way the enclosed text will look depends on the theme you are using.
To highlight a paragraph with concepts, definitions, theorems or examples, the best option is to put it inside a box. There are three types of box, and it's up to you to decide which one better fits in your presentation:
It's really easy to use a different theme in your slideshow. For example, the Madrid theme (most of the slideshows in this article use this theme) is set by adding the following command to the preamble:
You must put the \usecolortheme statement below the \usetheme command. You can open this LaTeX code in Overleaf to explore the Madrid theme with the beaver colortheme. For various options, check out the table of screenshots of different themes and colorthemes in the Reference guide below.
The font size, here 17pt, can be passed as a parameter to the beamer class at the beginning of the document preamble: \documentclass[17pt]beamer. Below is an example showing the result of using the 17pt font-size option:
Below is a table with screenshots of the title page and a normal slide in Beamer using different combinations of themes (rows) and colorthemes (columns). To have a complete list of themes and colorthemes see the further reading section for references.
To create a Beamer presentation from R Markdown, you specify the beamer_presentation output format in the YAML metadata of your document. You can create a slide show broken up into sections by using the # and ## heading tags (you can also create a new slide without a header using a horizontal rule (---). For example, here is a simple slide show (see Figure 4.3 for two sample slides):
The slide_level option defines the heading level that defines individual slides. By default, this is the highest header level in the hierarchy that is followed immediately by content, and not another header, somewhere in the document. This default can be overridden by specifying an explicit slide_level:
Beamer presentations have a few features in common with ioslides presentations in Section 4.1 and PDF documents in Section 3.3. For incremental bullets, see Section 4.1.2. For how to keep the intermediate LaTeX output file, see Section 3.3.7.2.
Beamer is not new to Carolina. The Charleston, S.C. native, served as an assistant coach with the Gamecocks for four seasons from 2007-10 under head coach Steve Spurrier. In 2007, he served as the outside linebackers coach and co-special teams coordinator. He mentored the cornerbacks in 2008, then coached the Spurs and strong safeties and was the special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator in 2009 and 2010, setting the foundation for the most successful run in school history.
During his tenure as recruiting coordinator, nine Gamecocks were selected in the NFL Draft, including first round selection Stephen Gilmore (Buffalo) and second round picks Alshon Jeffery (Chicago) and D.J. Swearinger (Houston).
Prior to his arrival in Norman, Beamer spent two seasons on the staff at Georgia as tight ends coach and special teams coordinator under Kirby Smart. The Bulldogs posted a 21-7 combined record with Beamer on staff. In 2017, the Bulldogs won the SEC Championship and finished second in the nation, falling in the CFP title game to Alabama in overtime. His special teams ranked eighth nationally in net punting (41.7), and 20th in kickoff returns (23.5) while blocking four kicks.
A December 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, Beamer was a member of five bowl teams (1995-99 seasons) and three Big East Conference championship squads on the Hokie football team as a long snapper and wide receiver. He was a long snapper on the 1999 Virginia Tech team that played for the BCS National Championship.
Head Coach Shane Beamer and six members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media on Tuesday; Ahead of Saturday's home game against Clemson; Including Spencer Rattler, Mario Anderson, Tonka Hemingway, Marcellas Dial, Alex "Boogie" Huntley and Debo Williams
Head Coach Shane Beamer and five members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media on Tuesday, ahead of Saturday's home game against Kentucky; Including Vershon Lee, Ahmarean Brown, Jatius Geer, Alex "Boogie" Huntley and Joshua Simon
Head Coach Shane Beamer and four members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media on Tuesday, ahead of Saturday's home game against Vanderbilt; Including Stone Blanton, O'Donnell Fortune, DQ Smith and Joshua Simon
Head Coach Shane Beamer and four members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media on Tuesday, ahead of Saturday's home game against Jacksonville State; Including Stone Blanton, Nick Emmanwori, DK Joyner and Debo Williams
Head Coach Shane Beamer and three members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media on Tuesday, as the Gamecocks prepare for a matchup with Texas A&M; Including Trey Knox, TJ Sanders and Jalon Kilgore
Head Coach Shane Beamer and five members of the Gamecock Football Program met with members of the media on Tuesday; Including Nyck Harbor, Mario Anderson, Tonka Hemingway, Boogie Huntley and Marcellas Dial
Head Coach Shane Beamer, Wide Receiver Ahmarean Brown and Linebacker Debo Williams met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; As the Gamecocks prepare for Saturday's matchup with Florida
Head Coach Shane Beamer and seven members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; Including Spencer Rattler, Pup Howard, Judge Collier, Trey Knox, Vershon Lee, Nick Gargiulo and Jatius Geer
Head Coach Shane Beamer and seven members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; Including Spencer Rattler, Tree Babalade, Drew Tuazoma, Stone Blanton, Trovon Baugh, Jalon Kilgore and Nick Emmanwori
Head Coach Shane Beamer and five members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; Including Dakereon Joyner, Marcellas Dial, Alex "Boogie" Huntley, Eddie Lewis and Mario Anderson
Head Coach Shane beamer and six members of the Gamecock Football team met with members of the media following Saturday Night's 47-21 victory over Furman; Including Debo Williams, TJ Sanders, Xavier Legette, Spencer Rattler, Luke Doty & LaNorris Sellers
Head Coach Shane Beamer and seven members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; Including Alex Huntley, Eddie Lewis, Spencer Rattler, Stone Blanton, DQ Smith, Dakereon Joyner and Joshua Simon
Head Coach Shane Beamer and seven members of the Gamecock Football Team met with members of the media following Tuesday's practice; Including Juju McDowell, Xavier Legette, Keenan Nelson Jr. Ahmarean Brown, Bryan Thomas Jr. Trey Knox and Marcellas Dial
Head Coach Shane beamer and four members of the Gamecock Football team met with members of the media following Saturday Night's Spring game; Including Juice Wells, Spencer Rattler, Trey Knox and Joshua Simon
Head Coach Shane Beamer and five members of the Gamecock football team, including Eric Douglas, Jovaughn Gwyn, Brad Johnson, Dakereon Joyner and Spencer Rattler, met with members of the media on Thursday morning.
Head Coach Shane Beamer and seven members of the Gamecock Football team met with the Media ahead of Saturdays game at Vanderbilt; Including Jaheim Bell, Xavier Legette, Devonni Reed, Eric Douglas, Zacch Pickens, Marshawn Lloyd and Juice Wells
This presentation compiles and the references appear as they should, but unfortunately they all appear on one slide (and actually run off the page). Is there any way to have the references appear on multiple slides?
.allowframebreaks is the solution for multislides bibliographies in beamer. It works out of the box with regular pandoc templates (see my previous answer). However, knitr has a setting that prevents it, by redefining \widowpenalties in its beamer template. You can verify that if you examine the .tex file with keep_tex: true.
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