The LaTex Beamer document class

The LaTeX Beamer document class produces presentations, handouts, and transparency slides as typeset PDF files. The class provides global and local control of layout, color, and fonts; a variety of list and list display mechanisms; and many dynamic transitions between slides. Beamer presentations can contain text, mathematics, graphics, and animations. A self-extracting file that provides Beta support for Beamer is available for download from our website.

A single SWP or SW file contains an entire Beamer presentation. You define global formatting with commands in the preamble. You create each slide in the presentation inside frame environments, which are defined with fragments provided as part of the support. Transitions are also defined with fragments.

This sample presentation illustrates many of the available features. If you have SWP or SW, you can open and examine the .tex document used to create the presentation.

The download includes the Beamer User Guide. Running the self-extracting program installs the User Guide in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer/doc directory of your program installation. The class is installed in the TCITeX/TeX/LaTeX/contrib/beamer directory.

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