What is Beamer?
{{Infobox software | name = LaTeX Beamer class | logo = | screenshot = A modified Latex Beamer example.jpg | caption = LaTeX Beamer presentation screenshot | developer = Till Tantau, Joseph Wright, Vedran Miletić | released = {{Start date and age|2003|03}} | latest release version = 3.55 | latest release date = {{Start date and age|2018|12|02}} | repo = {{URL|github.com/josephwright/beamer}} | programming language = [[LaTeX]] | operating system = [[Unix-like]], [[Windows]] | platform = TeX Live, MikTeX | language = [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], [[Croatian language|Croatian]], [[Serbian language|Serbian]] | genre = [[Presentation software]] | license = LaTeX Project Public License, [[GNU General Public License]] | website = {{URL|ctan.org/pkg/beamer}} }} '''Beamer''' is an [[open source]] [[LaTeX]] document class for creating [[presentation]] slides.<ref>Mertz, A., & Slough, W. (2005). Beamer by example. The PracTEX Journal.</ref><ref>Batts, C. T. (2007). A beamer tutorial in Beamer. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Department of Computer Science.</ref><ref>Oaks, A. (2009). LATEX Programming: Beamer Presentations. University of California, Berkeley.</ref> This [[software]] is mostly used to create slides with mathematical formulas.<ref>This is the biggest difference between [[Microsoft PowerPoint]] and [[LibreOffice]].</ref> It also supports many compile options. By using Beamer, all slides will be generated in [[PDF]] style. ==References and notes== {{reflist|2}} ==Further reading== *{{cite book |last=Voß |first=H. |year=2012 |title=Presentations with LaTeX |url=https://archive.org/details/presentationswit0000herb |publisher=Lehmanns Media |location=Berlin |isbn=9783865414960}} * Voß, H. (2011). PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TEX and LATEX. UIT Cambridge Ltd.. ==Related pages== * [[CTAN]] - [[repository (data)|repository]] including further details of Beamer * [[SATySFi]] - open source software aiming to replace LaTeX and Beamer ==Other websites== {{wikibook