
Output options īeamer provides the ability to make "handouts", which is a version of the output suitable for printing without the dynamic features, so that the printed version of a slide shows the final version that will appear during the presentation. Source code for Beamer presentations, like any other LaTeX file, can be created using any text editor, but there is specific support for Beamer syntax in AUCTeX and LyX.īeamer supports syntax of other LaTeX presentation packages, including Prosper, Powerdot and Foils, by using compatibility packages. The final output is typically a PDF file, making it highly portable and worry-free, in the sense that a given presentation will always look the same no matter the machine it is opened on.

This makes it easy to create presentations out of lecture notes or lecture notes out of presentations.


A \tableofcontents will still create a table of contents, \section is still used to create structure, and itemize still creates a list. The standard commands of LaTeX still work.Beamer can be used with pdfLaTeX, LaTeX+dvips, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX.The most important features, according to the user guide are: The list of features supported by Beamer is quite long. This is handled with PDF output by creating successive pages that preserve the layout but add new elements, so that advancing to the next page in the PDF file appears to add something to the displayed page, when in fact it has merely redrawn the page. Slides can be built up on-screen in stages as if by revealing text that was previously hidden or covered. The Beamer class is not the first LaTeX class for creating presentations, and like many of its predecessors (such as slides, seminar, prosper, powerdot), it has special syntax for defining "slides" (known in Beamer as "frames"). The name is taken from the German word " Beamer" as a pseudo-anglicism for " video projector". It supports pdfLaTeX, LaTeX + dvips, LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX. The latex codes are \documentclass.LaTeX Project Public License, GNU General Public Licenseīeamer is a LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides, with a wide range of templates and a set of features for making slideshow effects.

My tables aren't long, as one of them has only 3 rows and 6 columns. What happening is that some of my citations, tables and long equations are exceeding beyond the text width, though it wasn't the problem when the document class was 'article'. I am using Latex for the first time and I am preparing a slide using 'beamer'.
