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-
-% Copyright 2003, 2004 by Till Tantau <tantau@users.sourceforge.net>.
-%
-% This program can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms
-% of the GNU Public License, version 2.
-
-\section{Introduction}
-
-\beamer\ is a \LaTeX\ class for creating presentations that are
-held using a projector, but it can also be used to create transparency
-slides. Preparing presentations with \beamer\ is different from
-preparing them with \textsc{wysiwyg} programs like OpenOffice's Impress,
-Apple's Keynotes, or KOffice's KPresenter. A \beamer\ presentation is
-created like any other \LaTeX\ document: It has a preamble and a body,
-the body contains |\section|s and |\subsection|s, the different
-slides (called \emph{frames} in \beamer) are put in environments, they
-are structured using |itemize| and |enumerate| environments, and so
-on. The obvious disadvantage of this approach is that you have to know
-\LaTeX\ in order to use \beamer. The advantage is that if you know
-\LaTeX, you can use your knowledge of \LaTeX\ also when creating a
-presentation, not only when writing papers.
-
-
-\subsection{Main Features}
-
-The list of features supported by \beamer\ is quite long
-(unfortunately, so is presumably the list of bugs supported by
-\beamer). The most important features, in my opinion, are:
-\begin{itemize}
-\item
- You can use \beamer\ both with |pdflatex| and |latex|+|dvips|.
-\item
- The standard commands of \LaTeX\ still work. A |\tableofcontents| will
- still create a table of contents, |\section| is still used to create
- structure, and |itemize| still creates a list.
-\item
- You can easily create overlays and dynamic effects.
-\item
- Themes allow you to change the appearance of your presentation to
- suit you purposes.
-\item
- The themes are designed to be usable in practice, they are not just
- for show. You will not find such nonsense as a green body text on
- a picture of a green meadow.
-\item
- The layout, the colors, and the fonts used in a presentation can
- easily be changed globally, but you still also have control over
- the most minute detail.
-\item
- A special style file allows you to use the \LaTeX-source of a
- presentation directly in other \LaTeX\ classes like |article| or
- |book|. This makes it easy to create presentations out of lecture
- notes or lecture notes out of presentations.
-\item
- The final output is typically a \textsc{pdf}-file. Viewer
- applications for this format exist for virtually every
- platform. When bringing your presentation to a conference on a
- memory stick, you do not have to worry about which version of the
- presentation program might be installed there. Also, your
- presentation is going to look exactly the way it looked on your
- computer.
-\end{itemize}
-
-
-
-
-\subsection{History}
-
-I created \beamer\ mainly in my spare time. Many other people have
-helped by writing me emails containing suggestions for improvement or
-corrections or patches or whole new themes (by now I have gotten over a
-thousand emails concerning \beamer). Indeed, most of the
-development was only initiated by feature requests and bug
-reports. Without this feedback, \beamer\ would still be what it was
-originally intended to be: a small private collection of macros that
-make using the |seminar| class easier. I created the first version of
-\beamer\ for my PhD defense presentation in February 2003. Month
-later, I put the package on \textsc{ctan} at the request of some
-colleagues. After that, things somehow got out of hand.
-
-
-
-\subsection{Acknowledgments}
-
-Where to begin? \beamer's development depends not only on me, but on
-the feedback I get from other people. Many features have been
-implemented because someone requested them and I thought that these
-features would be nice to have and reasonably easy to implement. Other
-people have given valuable feedback on themes, on the user's guide,
-on features of the class, on the internals of the implementation, on
-special \LaTeX\ features, and on life in general. A small selection of
-these people includes (in no particular order and I have surely
-forgotten to name lots of people who really, really deserve being in
-this list): Carsten (for everything), Birgit (for being the first
-person to use \beamer\ besides me), Tux (for his silent criticism),
-Rolf Niepraschk (for showing me how to program \LaTeX\ correctly),
-Claudio Beccari (for writing part of the documentation on font
-encodings), Thomas Baumann (for the emacs stuff), Stefan M\"uller (for
-not loosing hope), Uwe Kern (for \textsc{xcolor}), Hendri Adriaens
-(for \textsc{ha-prosper}), Ohura Makoto (for spotting typos). People
-who have contributed to the themes include Paul Gomme, Manuel Carro,
-and Marlon Régis Schmitz.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-\subsection{How to Read this User's Guide}
-
-You should start with the first part. If you have not yet installed
-the package, please read Section~\ref{section-installation} first. If
-you are new to \beamer, you should next read the tutorial in
-Section~\ref{section-tutorial}. When you set down to create your first
-real presentation using \beamer, read Section~\ref{section-workflow}
-where the technical details of a possible workflow are
-discussed. If you are still new to creating presentations in general, you
-might find Section~\ref{section-guidelines} helpful, where many
-guidelines are given on what to do and what not to do. Finally, you
-should browse through Section~\ref{section-solutions}, where you will
-find ready-to-use solution templates for creating talks, possibly even
-in the language you intend to use.
-
-The second part of this user's guide goes into the details of all the
-commands defined in \beamer, but it also addresses other technical
-issues having to do with creating presentations (like how to include
-graphics or animations).
-
-The third part explains how you can change the appearance of your
-presentation easily either using themes or by specifying colors or
-fonts for specific elements of a presentation (like, say, the font
-used for the numbers in an enumerate).
-
-The last part contains ``howtos,'' which are explanations of how to
-get certain things done using \beamer.
-
-\medskip
-\noindent
-This user's guide contains descriptions of all ``public''
-commands, environments, and concepts defined by the \beamer-class. The
-following examples show how things are documented. As a general rule,
-red text is \emph{defined}, green text is \emph{optional}, blue text
-indicates special mode considerations.
-
-\begingroup
-\noindexing
-\begin{command}{\somebeamercommand\oarg{optional arguments}\marg{first
- argument}\marg{second argument}}
- Here you will find the explanation of what the command
- |\somebeamercommand| does. The green argument(s) is optional. The
- command of this example takes two parameters.
-
- \example
- |\somebeamercommand[opt]{my arg}{xxx}|
-\end{command}
-
-\begin{environment}{{somebeamerenvironment}\oarg{optional arguments}\marg{first
- argument}}
- Here you will find the explanation of the effect of the environment
- |somebeamerenvironment|. As with commands, the green arguments are
- optional.
-
- \example
-\begin{verbatim}
-\begin{somebeamerenvironment}{Argument}
- Some text.
-\end{somebeamerenvironment}
-\end{verbatim}
-\end{environment}
-
-\begin{element}{some beamer element}\yes\yes\yes
- Here you will find an explanation of the template, color,
- and/or font |some beamer element|.
- A ``\beamer-element'' is a concept that is explained in more detail
- in Section~\ref{section-elements}. Roughly, an \emph{element}
- is a part of a presentation that is potentially typeset in some
- special way. Examples of elements are frame titles, the author's
- name, or the footnote sign. For most elements there exists a
- \emph{template}, see Section~\ref{section-elements} once more, and
- also a \beamer-color and a \beamer-font.
-
- For each element, it is indicated whether a template, a
- \beamer-color, and/or a \beamer-font of the
- name |some beamer element| exist. Typically, all three exist and are
- employed together when the element needs to be typeset, that is,
- when the template is inserted the \beamer-color and -font are
- installed first. However, sometimes templates do not have a color or
- font associated with them (like parent templates). Also, there exist
- \beamer-colors and -fonts that do not have an underlying template.
-
- Using and changing templates is explained in
- Section~\ref{section-templates}. Here is the essence: To change a
- template, you can say
-\begin{verbatim}
-\setbeamertemplate{some beamer element}{your definition for this template}
-\end{verbatim}
- Unfortunately, it is not quite trivial to come up with a good definition for
- some templates. Fortunately, there are often \emph{predefined options}
- for a template. These are indicated like this:
- \begin{itemize}
- \itemoption{square}{}
- causes a small square to be used to render the template.
- \itemoption{circle}{\marg{radius}}
- causes circles of the given radius to be used to render the template.
- \end{itemize}
- You can install such a predefined option like this:
-\begin{verbatim}
-\setbeamertemplate{some beamer element}[square]
-%% Now squares are used
-
-\setbeamertemplate{some beamer element}[cirlce]{3pt}
-%% New a circle is used
-\end{verbatim}
-
- \beamer-colors are explained in Section~\ref{section-colors}. Here
- is the essence: To change the foreground of the color to, say, red, use
-\begin{verbatim}
-\setbeamercolor{some beamer element}{fg=red}
-\end{verbatim}
- To change the background to, say, black, use:
-\begin{verbatim}
-\setbeamercolor{some beamer element}{bg=black}
-\end{verbatim}
- You can also change them together using |fg=red,bg=black|. The
- background will not always be ``honoured,'' since it is difficult to
- show a colored background correctly and an extra effort must be made
- by the templates (while the foreground color is usually used
- automatically).
-
- \beamer-fonts are explained in Section~\ref{section-fonts}. Here is
- the essence: To change the size of the font to, say, large, use:
-\begin{verbatim}
-\setbeamerfont{some beamer element}{size=\large}
-\end{verbatim}
- In addition to the size, you can use things like |series=\bfseries|
- to set the series, |shape=\itshape| to change the shape,
- |family=\sffamily| to change the family, and you can use them in
- conjunction. Add a star to the command to first ``reset'' the font.
-\end{element}
-
-
-\beamernote
-As next to this paragraph, you will sometimes find the word
-\textsc{presentation} in blue next to some paragraph. This means that
-the paragraph applies only when you ``normally typeset your
-presentation using \LaTeX\ or pdf\LaTeX.''
-
-\articlenote
-Opposed to this, a paragraph with \textsc{article} next to it
-describes some behaviour that is special for the |article| mode. This
-special mode is used to create lecture notes out of a presentation
-(the two can coexist in one file).
-
-\lyxnote
-A paragraph with \textsc{lyx} next to it describes behaviour that is
-special when you use \LyX\ to prepare your presentation.
-\endgroup
-
-
-%%% Local Variables:
-%%% mode: latex
-%%% TeX-master: "beameruserguide"
-%%% End: