L A TEX and Beamer Software Freedom Day, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. September 16, 2011.
Outline 1 An introduction to L A TEX 2 Writing documents in L A TEX 3 Beamer in a nutshell 4 Where to go from here?
Statutory Warning It is easy to get into L A TEX and Beamer but almost impossible to get out.
An introduction to LATEX Outline 1 An introduction to L A TEX 2 Writing documents in L A TEX 3 Beamer in a nutshell 4 Where to go from here?
An introduction to LATEX Introduction L A TEX is a typesetting language developed by Leslie B. Lamport in the early 1980s. L A TEX essentially consists of a collection of TEX macros and a program to process L A TEX documents. TEX was developed by Donald Knuth in the late 1970s. L A TEX comes for free and is easy to install.
An introduction to LATEX Introduction (contd.) Places to start are CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) web-site (http://www.ctan.org/) and TUG (TeX Users Group) web-site (http://www.tug.org/). A simple primer one can follow is Getting Started with L A TEX by David R. Wilkins. Another one is the The Not So Short Introduction to L A TEX 2ε by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl. A book one can buy is the L A TEX: A Document Preparation System by Leslie Lamport.
Writing documents in LATEX Outline 1 An introduction to L A TEX 2 Writing documents in L A TEX 3 Beamer in a nutshell 4 Where to go from here?
Writing documents in LATEX A Sample Latex File Pagla Dashu Put in your abstract. Abstract 1 Introduction There are some English translations of Sukumar Ray s works [2, 1]. 2 Your Work You can read the works mentioned in Section 1. References [1] S. Chatterji. Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World of Sukumar Ray: A Translation. Puffin, New Delhi, India, 2004. [2] S. Chaudhuri. The Select Nonsense of Sukumar Ray: A Translation. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India, 1987. School of Abol Tabol. pagla@sukumarroy.org 1
Writing documents in LATEX Let us see how the above file was generated. We look at the tex and bib files.
Writing documents in LATEX Writing your own commands Let us see another example.
Beamer in a nutshell Outline 1 An introduction to L A TEX 2 Writing documents in L A TEX 3 Beamer in a nutshell 4 Where to go from here?
Beamer in a nutshell A beamer document consists of a sequence of overhead slides, known as frames. They are equivalent to an overhead transparency.
Beamer in a nutshell Let us see the first example of a beamer slide. \documentclass{beamer} \title{a Toy Example} \author{haridas Pal} \date{september 32, 2020} \begin{document} \maketitle \begin{frame} \frametitle{first Slide} Put in contents here. \end{frame} A Toy Example Haridas Pal September 32, 2020 \end{document}
Beamer in a nutshell A Table in Beamer \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \frametitle{a Table} \begin{center} \begin{tabular}{ l c } \hline Mandar Mitra & 15:00--15:30 \\ \hline Arijit Bishnu & 15:30--15:50 \\ \hline \end{tabular} \end{center} \end{frame} \end{document} A Table Mandar Mitra 15:00 15:30 Arijit Bishnu 15:30 15:50
Beamer in a nutshell Including Figures \documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \frametitle{including Figures} \begin{center} \includegraphics[scale=0.5]{voronoicolor.jpg} \end{center} \end{frame} \end{document} Including Figures
Beamer in a nutshell Including Figures in Multiple Columns Using Multiple Columns \documentclass[xcolor=pdftex,dvipsnames]{beamer} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \begin{frame}[fragile]{using Multiple Columns} \begin{columns} \column{0.5\textwidth} \begin{center} \includegraphics<1>[scale=0.30]{voronoicolor.jpg} \end{center} \column{0.5\textwidth} \begin{center} \includegraphics<1>[trim= 10mm 30mm 30mm 10mm, clip, angle=90, scale=0.30]{voronoicolor.jpg} \end{center} \end{columns} \end{frame} \end{document}
Beamer in a nutshell Frames with Dynamic Effects \documentclass[xcolor=pdftex,dvipsnames]{beamer} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} \begin{frame}{problem Definition} \begin{columns} \column{0.5\textwidth} \begin{block}<1->{input} This comes first. \end{block} \begin{block}<2->{output} This comes second. \end{block} \column{0.5\textwidth} \begin{center} \includegraphics<3->[scale=0.2]{voronoicolor.jpg} \end{center} \begin{block}<3->{domination} This comes third together with the figure. \end{block} \end{columns} \end{frame} \end{document} Problem Definition Input This comes first.
Beamer in a nutshell Beautification Use themes and color themes.
Where to go from here? Outline 1 An introduction to L A TEX 2 Writing documents in L A TEX 3 Beamer in a nutshell 4 Where to go from here?
Where to go from here? Beamer by Example by Andrew Mertz and William Slough TUG Internet is at your disposal.