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Presentations in LaTeX

• Basic document structure;
• revealing things incrementally;
• creating accompanying notes.

Example:

• presentation

Presentations in LaTeX

Basic Document Structure

  \documentclass{beamer}

  \title{Here is my Title}
  \author{Christina Huggins}
  \date{July 15th, 2005}

  \begin{document}

  \begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Optional Title for My Slide}
  Here is one slide.
  \end{frame}

  \begin{frame}
  Here is another slide.
  \end{frame}

  \end{document} 

Presentations in LaTeX

Revealing Things Incrementally

  \begin{frame}
  Since I may want to focus on one item at a time in my presentation,
  \begin{itemize}
  \item I want to reveal only the first item on my list initially,
  \pause
  \item then the second item,
  \pause
  \item then the third,
  \pause
  \item and so on...
  \end{itemize}
  \end{frame}

Presentations in LaTeX

Creating Accompanying Notes

1. Create your main .tex file (including both the text for your presentation and the notes in between). Leave off the document class declaration (let's call it name.tex).
2. Create another file, name.beamer.tex, the content of which is the following:

             \documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}
             \input{name.tex}

3. Create a third file, name.article.tex, the content of which is the following:

             \documentclass{article}
             \usepackage{beamerarticle}
             \input{name.tex}