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This template is a based on SINTEF Presentation from Federico Zenith and its derivation Beamer-LaTeX-Themes
from Liu Qilong
CUHK style adaptation contributed by Rui HU
In the following you find a brief introduction on how to use LATEX and the beamer package to prepare slides,
based on the one written by Federico Zenith for SINTEF Presentation
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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
► Introduction
► Personalization
► Summary
► Reference
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Beamer for SINTEF slides
1 Introduction
• We assume you can use LAT X; if you cannot, you can learn it here
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• Beamer is one of the most popular and powerful document classes for presentations in
LATEX
• Beamer has also a detailed user manual
• Here we will present only the most basic features to get you up to speed
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Beamer vs. PowerPoint
1 Introduction
Compared to PowerPoint, using LATEX is better because:
• It is not What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get, but What-You-Mean-Is-What-You-Get:
you write the content, the computer does the typesetting
• Produces a pdf: no problems with fonts, formulas, program versions
• Easier to keep consistent style, fonts, highlighting, etc.
• Math typesetting in T X is the best:
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Getting Started
Selecting the SINTEF Theme
To start working with sintefbeamer, start a LATEX document with the
preamble:
Minimum SINTEF Beamer Document
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{sintef}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Hello, world!}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
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Title page
1 Introduction
To set a typical title page, you call some commands in the preamble:
The Commands for the Title Page
\title{Sample Title}
\subtitle{Sample subtitle}
\author{First Author, Second Author}
\date{\today} % Can also be (ab)used for conference name &c.
You can then write out the title page with \maketitle.
To set a background image use the \titlebackground command before \maketitle; its only argument is
the name (or path) of a graphic file.
If you use the starred version \titlebackground*, the image will be clipped to a split view on the right side of
the title slide.
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Writing a Simple Slide
It’s really easy!
• A typical slide has bulleted lists
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Writing a Simple Slide
It’s really easy!
• A typical slide has bulleted lists
• These can be uncovered in sequence
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Writing a Simple Slide
It’s really easy!
• A typical slide has bulleted lists
• These can be uncovered in sequence
Code for a Page with an Itemised List
\
begin{fr
ame}
{Writin
ga
Simple
Slide}
\
framesu
btitle{It
's really
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Table of Contents
2 Personalization
► Introduction
► Personalization
► Summary
► Reference
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Changing Slide Style
2 Personalization
• You can select the white or maincolor slide style in the preamble with \themecolor{white} (default)
or
\themecolor{main}
— You should not change these within the document: Beamer does not like it
— If you really must, you may have to add \usebeamercolor[fg]{normal text} in the slide
• You can change the footline colour with \footlinecolor{color}
— Place the command before a new frame
— There are four “official” colors: maincolor, sintefyellow, sintefgreen,
sintefdarkgreen
— Default is no footline; you can restore it with \footlinecolor{}
— Others may work, but no guarantees!
— Should not be used with the maincolor theme!
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Blocks
2 Personalization
Colour Blocks
Standard Blocks
Similar to the ones on the left, but you pick the colour. Text will be white by
These have a color coordinated
default, but you may set it with an optional argument.
with the footline (and grey in the
blue theme) \begin{colorblock}[black]{sinteflightgreen}
{title} content...
\begin{block} \end{colorblock}
{title} content...
The “official” colours of colour blocks are: sinteflilla,
\end{block}
maincolor, sintefdarkgreen, and sintefyellow.
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Using Colours
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• You can use colours with the \textcolor{<color name>}{text}
command
• The
— colours
Primary are defined in themaincolor
colours: andpackage:
sintefcolor its sintefgrey
sidekick sintefgreen,
— Three shades of green:
Additional colours: sintefyellow, sintefdarkgreen
sintefred, sinteflilla
sinteflightgreen,
◦ These may be shaded—see the sintefcolor documentation or the SINTEF profile manual
• Do not abuse colours: \emph{} is usually enough
• Use \alert{} to bring the focus somewhere
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Using Colours
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• You can use colours with the \textcolor{<color name>}{text}
command
• The
— colours
Primary are defined in themaincolor
colours: andpackage:
sintefcolor its sintefgrey
sidekick sintefgreen,
— Three shades of green:
Additional colours: sintefyellow, sintefdarkgreen
sintefred, sinteflilla
sinteflightgreen,
◦ These may be shaded—see the sintefcolor documentation or the SINTEF profile manual
• Do not abuse colours: \emph{} is usually enough
• Use \alert{} to bring the focus somewhere
• If you highlight too much, you don’t highlight at all!
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Adding images
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Adding images works like in normal LATEX:
Code for Adding Images
\usepackage{graphicx}
% ...
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]
{assets/logo_RGB}
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Splitting in Columns
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Splitting the page is easy and common; typically, one side has a picture and the other text:
This is the first column And this
the second
Column Code
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{0.6\
textwidth} This is the
first column
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.3\
textwidth} And this the
second
\end{column}
% There could be more!
\end{columns}
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Special Slides
2 Personalization
• Chapter slides
• Side-picture slides
Chapter slides
2 Personalization
• Similar to frames, but with a few more options
• Opened with \begin{chapter}[<image>]{<color>}{<title>}
• Image is optional, colour and title are mandatory
• There are seven “official” colours: maincolor, sintefgreen
sintefdarkgreen,
sinteflightgreen, sintefred, sintefyellow, ,
sinteflilla.
— Strangely enough, these are more than the official colours for the footline.
— It may still be a nice touch to change the footline of following slides to the same color of a chapter slide. Your choice.
• Otherwise, chapter behaves just like frame.
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Side-Picture Slides
2 Personalization
• Opened with \begin{sidepic}{<image>}
{<title>}
• Otherwise, sidepic works just like frame
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Fonts
2 Personalization
• The paramount task of fonts is being readable
• There are good ones...
— Use serif fonts only with high-definition projectors
— Use sans-serif fonts otherwise (or if you simply prefer them)
• ... and not so good ones:
— Never use monospace for normal text
— Gothic, calligraphic or weird fontŊ should alwayŊ be avoided
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Look
2 Personalization
• To insert a final slide with the title and final thanks, use \backmatter.
— The title also appears in footlines along with the author name, you can change this text with \footlinepayoff
— You can remove the title from the final slide with \backmatter[notitle]
• The aspect ratio defaults to 16:9, and you should not change it to 4:3 for old projectors as it is inherently
impossible to perfectly convert a 16:9 presentation to 4:3 one; spacings will break
— The aspectratio argument to the beamer class is overridden by the SINTEF theme
— If you really know what you are doing, check the package code and look for the geometry class.
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Citation
2 Personalization
• you can cite your reference use \cite{}, e.g. [Bagla, 2005]. The Reference will be shown in the last page.
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Table of Contents
3 Summary
► Introduction
► Personalization
► Summary
► Reference
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Good Luck!
3 Summary
• Enough for an introduction! You should know enough by now
• If you have corrections or suggestions, send them to me!
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Table of Contents
4 Reference
► Introduction
► Personalization
► Summary
► Reference
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References
4 Reference
Bagla, J. S. (2005).
Cosmological n-body simulation: Techniques, scope and status.
Current science, pages 1088–1100.
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Title
Thank you for listening!
Any questions?
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