Questions tagged [beamer]

Beamer is a LaTeX class for creating presentations.

Unless related to programming (e.g., the automated generation of source code from another programming language), almost all questions about Beamer and in general are better asked on TeX SE.

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Beamer Rmarkdown, changing slide count for backup slides

I am trying to implement this question but in an Rmarkdown beamer presentation: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70448/dont-count-backup-slides Can anyone help me out? When I try to put the TeX into the markdown, I get all kinds of errors,…
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Adding a footnote / thanks to Rmarkdown title slide

I have to include a note in my title slide declaring the source of my funding. I was able to do this in LyX / LaTeX through: \author{Michael Chirico\thanks{These people gave me money}, Other Authors} I have not been able to reproduce this in…
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Changing the colour of \textbullet in LaTeX Beamer

I don't want to use Beamer's standard blue colour theme. I want to use beaver, which is deep reds. Everything looks nice, except that if I use itemize the bullet points are still blue. Is there a nice way to have the bullets vary with what colour…
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Reduce space between code chunks and code output in rmarkdown beamer presentation

I'm building a presentation using rmarkdown and LaTeX/Beamer. I would like to reduce the spacing between the displayed R-commands and R-output. I believe this is related to the paragraph spacing options in LaTeX/Beamer. Is this something I should do…
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How to include a code snippet in a beamer presentation?

What's the best way to include some code snippets in a beamer presentation? I've already tried verbatim, and lstlisting environments - both destroyed my presentation.
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How to hide footer (or footline) in a particular slide in Beamer?

I am preparing a presentation in Beamer. I have done a few customizations to the template I am using. Now I want to hide the footline on the title slide. I also want to hide it on a few other slides. How do I achieve that? Thanks!
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Latex: stretchable curly braces outside math

I am producing some latex beamer slides (but I think it is not a beamer specific question per se). I have the following: \begin{itemize} \item Issue1 \item Issue2 \item Issue3 \end{itemize} Now, I want to have a right curly brace (i.e. '}') behind…
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How can I insert page number to rmarkdown beamer slides?

How can I show page numbers (preferably like 4/10, 5/10 etc.) on an rmarkdown beamer presentation?
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centering titles when using the beamer class in latex

I want to center the frametitles on my talk. I understand that the beamer class has a built-in ability to center frametitles, but I can't figure out how to do it. It is something…
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Best font size for Latex Beamer

I am preparing a presentation in latex using the beamer package. I am wondering what font size "pros" who give a lot of presentations use to make sure people in the back of the room can see. The default font size seems a bit small to me.
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Code chunk font size in Beamer with knitr and latex

I am trying get some R code to fit on my beamer slides. It does not seem possible to change the font size via the size argument for the code chunk as you might do for other knitr type documents. The only way seems to be with \footnotesize before…
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References Truncated in Beamer Presentation prepared in Knitr/RMarkdown

I'm currently preparing a presentation in RStudio (using RMarkdown and Knitr, outputting to a Beamer presentation) that has quite a few references. I'm using a pretty typical YAML header: --- title: "Title" author: "Me" date: "February 27th,…
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Beamer - make itemize (and space occupied) disappear

So I have two itemize's on one slide and a graphic underneath them both: \onslide<1>{ \begin{itemize} ... \end{itemize} } \onslide<2>{ \begin{itemize} ... \end{itemize} } \includegraphics[width=5cm]{abc.eps} So what I…
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Add beamer frame options in knitr/rmarkdown

I'm trying to add frame numbers to my Beamer presentation written in rmarkdown. However, I would like to suppress the numbers on the title page using the \begin{frame}[plain] option (from the second answer here:…
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LaTeX Beamer package, change frame title in \againframe

Is it possible to change the frame title when using \againframe from the Beamer package, in LaTeX? I would like to have a previous frame displayed, at a specific slide inside the frame, but with a different title this time. Thanks.
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