A small latex beamer Template

The latex-beamer is the laTeX class to produce presentations.

Working with the beamer class

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{beamerthemeBerlin}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\title{Example presentation}
\author{your name}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\frame{
\titlepage
}
\frame{
\frametitle{Table of Contents}
\tableofcontents
}
\frame{
\frametitle{Show the facts}
\begin{itemize}
\item first point
\item second point
\item your point :)
\end{itemize}
}
\end{document}

Explanation:

\documentclass{beamer} - the class for creating presentations with latex

\usepackage{beamerthemeBerlin} - the theme name. The theme names derive from the universities where they were created initially. For trying other themes just take a look in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/theme

The command sequence \frame starts a new slide hich can be filled with content. With \frametitle each slide can be tagged with a different title.

You should find some examples under:/usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/examples/

User guide:

To read the user guide you have to unpack the file before. Proceed as following:

cp /usr/share/doc/latex-beamer/beameruserguide.pdf.gz ~/

cd ~/

gzip -d beameruserguide.pdf.gz

evince beameruserguide.pdf