LaTeX Beamer template

A LaTeX Beamer template for a talk or a lecture, slides you present from any PDF viewer.

First page of the Beamer presentation template

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Engine: pdfLaTeX
Bibliography: none
License: Public domain, use freely.

Files:

main.tex

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{default}

\title{A Beamer Template}
\subtitle{Slides made with \LaTeX}
\author{Your Name}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Overview}
  \begin{itemize}
    \item Beamer turns a LaTeX document into presentation slides.
    \item Each \texttt{frame} environment is one slide.
    \item Use \texttt{itemize} and \texttt{enumerate} for bullet lists.
  \end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{A Little Math}
  Displayed equations look great on a slide:
  \[
    e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0 .
  \]
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Thanks}
  \begin{center}
    \Large Questions?
  \end{center}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

How to use this template

Everything runs in your browser: nothing to install, no login, no compile timeout.

Click Open in LaTeX.to. The template opens as a project in the Projects pane, with main.tex in the editor and its finished PDF in the preview.
Replace the placeholders, such as Your Name, with your own text. The % comments in the files mark the places to edit.
Click Preview, or press Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on a Mac), to compile. The preview shows the new PDF; you do not need to save first.
If the compile fails, the Console pane opens with the LaTeX log. The first error in it says what went wrong and on which line.
To add an image, a .bib file or another .tex file, open the project's menu (the three dots next to its name in the Projects pane) and choose Upload file or New file.
The arrow next to Preview has Download PDF. Ctrl+S saves your edits, and the project stays in your browser on this device.

How to add a slide

Every frame is one slide, so adding one is copying a block.

Copy a block from \begin{frame}{Overview} to its \end{frame} and paste it where the new slide belongs.
The text in the braces after \begin{frame} is the slide title.
Put the content between the two lines: an itemize list, a paragraph, or math between \[ and \].

How to change the look

The deck uses the plain default theme at 4 by 3, and two lines change both.

Replace \usetheme{default} with \usetheme{Madrid}, which adds a footer with your name, the title and the slide number; Berlin, Warsaw and Boadilla are other common choices.
Add \usecolortheme{beaver} below it for a red color scheme without changing the layout.
For a 16 by 9 projector, change the first line to \documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}.

How to reveal a list one item at a time

A slide can build up in steps, and each step is a page of its own in the PDF.

Put \pause between two \item lines; everything after it appears on the next click.
To print the slides without the steps, change the first line to \documentclass[handout]{beamer}.

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