A complex scientific text editor perfect for homework and mathematical exercise, which comes packed with a large array of options and configuration properties Scientific WorkPlace is a. A Beamer ™frame™corresponds to a presentation slide. In SWP or SW, apply the Frame title and Frame subtitle text tags to mark the titles. Apply the BeginFrame fragment to start a frame. Apply the EndFrame fragment to end the frame.
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Author: Josh Cassidy (August 2013)
This five-part series of articles uses a combination of video and textual descriptions to teach the basics of creating a presentation using the LaTeX beamer package. These tutorials were first published on the original ShareLateX blog site during August 2013; consequently, today's editor interface (Overleaf) has changed considerably due to the development of ShareLaTeX and the subsequent merger of ShareLaTeX and Overleaf. However, much of the content is still relevant and teaches you some basic LaTeX—skills and expertise that will apply across all platforms.
In the previous post we looked at adding some basic content into our presentation. In this post we're going to look at adding some other types of content.
Blocks
One of the ways
beamer
lets us display information on slides is using 'blocks'. To do this we use the block
environment:At the end of the
begin{block}
command we simply enter the block's title in curly brackets. Then whatever we enter in between the begin{block}
and end{block}
commands, forms the content of the block. This is what it looks like:There are quite a few variations of the
block
environment that help us produce blocks for different purposes. The first is the alertblock>/code> environment which is similar to the block
environment except its colour is red instead of blue:
Then there's the
definition
environment which produces a standard blue block but with the title already specified as Definition:Next there's the
example
environment which produces a green block with the title Example.There is also a group of blocks that are especially useful for presenting mathematics; for example, the
theorem
environment, the corollary
environment and the proof
environment:The
theorem
and corollary
environments automatically put their content in italics. These two also allow us to add extra content to the block title in parenthesis by adding text into square brackets at the end of the begin{...}
command. It's worth mentioning at this point that beamer
automatically loads the amsmath
package so you can add more complicated mathematics straight away.Code
Now let's talk about adding code into slides. This is particularly important for any computer science related presentation. To do this we use the
semiverbatim
environment. In order to use this environment on a frame, we need to add the fragile option into the begin{frame}
command. Now whatever text we enter in the environment will appear as written, except for the backslash, open curly bracket and close curly bracket characters, which will continue to behave as they normally would in LaTeX; therefore, if we want to print some code which includes these characters we need to add an extra backslash before each of them. Here's an example printing the code we used for the title slide:
Hyperlinks and buttons
Finally, I want to discuss adding hyperlinks to our presentation. Before we can create any hyperlinks we need to tag the frames we want to link to using the
label
command; for example, we'll add a label to the contents frame, the columns frame and the pictures frame:Then we use the
hyperlink
command to insert a link:In the first set of curly brackets we enter the label of the target frame and in the second set we add the text that we want to be clickable. Now if we compile the document you'll see the text is now a clickable link.
Beamer also allows us to use buttons. To do this we simply add a button command into the second set of curly brackets. For example, we'll swap the 'click here' text for the
beamerbutton
command and enter in curly brackets the text we want to appear on the button:Here are some other button commands we can use:
The
beamer
'go to' button, the beamer
'skip' button and the beamer
'return' button:This concludes our second discussion on adding content to our presentation. In the next post we'll look at animating our presentations.
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Hi,because of some conflicts in our university, I have to use a 'corporate design'. However, because it's only available in PowerPoint and not a good one, too and I desided to build a design very near the corporate design we should use. Beamer comes with PaloAlto which ist quite near but has some disadvantages, so I changed to a combination of the colorthemes 'orchid' and 'whale'. Again, this come with some disadvantages, for instance the color combination is a bit to dark - the one used in the example is to dark, too, I will correct tha one day or the other.
When I only use whale and set the colors by hand, then I find a dark rectangle in the upper right corner of the slides. I tried to solve that by not using any colortheme than sidebar, the rectangle vanishes - I assume, the colorthemes overlapped at the upper right area. But then the section-fontcolor and subsection-fontcolor in the sidebar isn't white anymore but more of a fairly unvisible grey-blue-mix.
So, how can I set the fontcolor of the sections and subsections in order to be white permanently and being marked by a black box when in the section / subsection as it looks like when the colortheme 'whale' is used?
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For any help or hint, I am grateful. Have a nice one.Scientific Workplace Tutorial
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