Beamer

LaTeX class to design slides

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.

LaTeX Beamer class
Developer(s)Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, Vedran Miletić
Initial releaseMarch 2003; 21 years ago (2003-03)
Stable release
3.55 / December 2, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-12-02)
Repositorygithub.com/josephwright/beamer
Written inLaTeX
Operating systemUnix-like, Windows
PlatformTeX Live, MikTeX
Available inEnglish, German, Croatian, Serbian
TypePresentation software
LicenseLaTeX Project Public License, GNU General Public License
Websitectan.org/pkg/beamer

References and notes

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  1. Mertz, A., & Slough, W. (2005). Beamer by example. The PracTEX Journal.
  2. Batts, C. T. (2007). A beamer tutorial in Beamer. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Computer Science.
  3. Oaks, A. (2009). LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations. University of California, Berkeley.
  4. This is the biggest difference between Microsoft PowerPoint and LibreOffice.

Further reading

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  • 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..
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  • CTAN - repository including further details of Beamer
  • SATySFi - open source software aiming to replace LaTeX and Beamer

Other websites

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Tutorials

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