Beamer

Beamer is an open source LaTeX document class for creating presentation slides.Mertz, A., & Slough, W. (2005). Beamer by example. The PracTEX Journal.Batts, C. T. (2007). A beamer tutorial in Beamer. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Computer Science.Oaks, A. (2009). LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations. University of California, Berkeley. This software is mostly used to create slides with mathematical formulas.This is the biggest difference between Microsoft PowerPoint and LibreOffice. It also supports many compile options. By using Beamer, all slides will be generated in PDF style.

References and notes

Further reading

 Voß, H. (2011). PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TEX and LATEX. UIT Cambridge Ltd..

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

Other websites

 Beamer home page
 beamerposter – a Beamer extension for scientific conference posters in DIN-A0 size or bigger 
 Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, Vedran Miletić (2015) User's guide – from www.ctan.org
 Beamer Theme Matrix
 wiki2beamer: Tool to create Beamer presentations from a wiki-like syntax
 Dohmen, Klaus (2010) Dual Screen Presentations with the LaTeX Beamer Class under X 
 Beamer2Thesis
 BeamerikZ - A Latex class for creating TikZ based Beamer presentations

Tutorials
 Introduction to Beamer – How to make a presentation 
Beamer Presentations: A 5-Part Tutorial for Beginners (Overleaf)
 Using beamer.cls: "An intentionally incomplete guide" from LaTeX for Logicians
 Beamer by Example from PracTEX Journal, many examples of both TeX source and formatted output
 Introduction to Beamer on Wikibooks
 A presentation using the LaTeX Beamer class (short guide – samples)

Category:Free software
Category:Presentation software