Introduction
LaTeX has long been my main typesetting environment. This post has some handy dandy codes that I daily use for Beamer class.
Beamer presentations can quickly get overly large compilation times and generate large PDF outputs. In Compressed PDFs, I describe several methods to optimize these processes.
My Beamer Template
\documentclass[ignorenonframetext]{beamer}
\include{preamble}
\title[]{}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\frame{\maketitle}
%\begin{frame}{Contents}
%\tableofcontents
%\end{frame}
\end{document}
preamble.tex is in the root folder, which has the following code:
%%% or uncomment this for the article version
% \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage{beamerarticle}
%%% or uncomment this for handouts
%\documentclass[handout,ignorenonframetext]{beamer}
\mode<article>
{
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{pgf}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\setjobnamebeamerversion{example.beamer}
}
\mode<presentation>
{
\beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty % remove navigation symbols
\usecolortheme{seagull} % default, albatross, seagull , crane, beaver, beetle, seahorse, wolverine
\usefonttheme{serif} % serif, structureitalicserif, structurebold
}
\mode<handout>
{
%%% In handout mode give the individual pages a light grey background
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black!5}
%%% Put more than one frame on each page to save paper.
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[letterpaper,border shrink=3mm, landscape]
% \pgfpagesuselayout{2 on 1}[letterpaper,border shrink=5mm, portrait]
% \setbeameroption{show notes}
}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number] % slide number at the bottom
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{siunitx} % Format scientific units
\usepackage{chemformula} % Format Chemical Formulae
\usepackage{tabularx} % Make complex tables
\author[]{Murat Kahveci, Ph.D.}
\subject{}
\institute[Loyola University Chicago]{
Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry\\
Loyola University Chicago}
%\titlegraphic{\includegraphics[height=1cm]{./figures/luc.png}}
% symbols of equations and their definitions
% USAGE
% \whereInEq{ symbol(units) & definition \\}
\newcommand{\whereInEq}[1]{
\noindent where \quad
{\footnotesize
\begin{tabularx}{.8\textwidth} {
| r
>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}X }
#1
\end{tabularx}
\bigskip
}
}
Common Commands
New Frame
With bullet points.
\frame{
\frametitle{}
\begin{itemize}
\item
\end{itemize}
}
Equations
I prefer align which requires \usepackage{amsmath} in preamble and allows multiple lines of equations:
\begin{align}
\end{align}
Chem formula and equations. \usepackage{chemformula} in preamble:
\ch{}
To write the units in more elegant way:
\si
\SI{}{}
\si or \SI command dependencies in preamble:
\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{load-configurations = abbreviations, binary-units = true}
\DeclareSIUnit\px{px}
Figures
\begin{figure}[hbt]
\centering
\frame{\includegraphics[width=0.65\textwidth]{./figures/}}
% \caption{}
% \label{fig:}
\end{figure}
Tables
Simple table:
\begin{table}[hbt]
\begin{tabular}{l|cc}
& & \\
\hline
& & \\
& &
\end{tabular}
\caption{}
\end{table}
Complex table is easier with the tabularx package. Invoke \usepackage{tabularx} and \usepackage{booktabs} in preamble.
\begin{frame}{}
\begin{table}[]
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{l>{\raggedright}X}
\toprule
\textbf{Option} & \textbf{Description} \tabularnewline
\midrule
& newpxtext and newpxtext fonts will be used (pdfLaTeX) \tabularnewline
& Vertically align columns\tabularnewline
\bottomrule
\end{tabularx}
\label{tbl:}
\end{table}
\end{frame}
Title Page
%Title page
\title[About Beamer] %optional
{About the Beamer class in presentation making}
\subtitle{A short story}
\author[Arthur, Doe] % (optional)
{A.~B.~Arthur\inst{1} \and J.~Doe\inst{2}}
\institute[VFU] % (optional)
{
\inst{1}%
Faculty of Physics\\
Very Famous University
\and
\inst{2}%
Faculty of Chemistry\\
Very Famous University
}
\date[VLC 2014] % (optional)
{Very Large Conference, April 2014}
\logo{\includegraphics[height=1.5cm]{lion-logo.jpg}}
Make Title Page
\frame{\titlepage}
Table of Contents
TOC after the title page:
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}
TOC is placed at the beginning of each section; current section is highlighted:
\AtBeginSection[]
{
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents[currentsection]
\end{frame}
}
Visibility of Text
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Sample frame title}
\begin{itemize}
\item<1-> Text visible on slide 1
\item<2-> Text visible on slide 2
\item<3-> Text visible on slides 3
\item<4-> Text visible on slide 4
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\pause Command
\begin{frame}
In this slide \pause
the text will be partially visible \pause
And finally everything will be there
\end{frame}
Text Highlighting
Text highlighting can be achieved in several ways.
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Sample frame title}
In this slide, some important text will be
\alert{highlighted} because it's important.
Please, don't abuse it.
\begin{block}{Remark}
Sample text
\end{block}
\begin{alertblock}{Important theorem}
Sample text in red box
\end{alertblock}
\begin{examples}
Sample text in green box. The title of the block is ``Examples".
\end{examples}
\end{frame}
Make Two-Column Slide
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{}
\begin{columns}
\column{0.5\textwidth}
\column{0.5\textwidth}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}