Using LATEX To Create Presentations and PDF

Using LATEX to create presentations and posters
The beamer and tikzposter classes
Joanna Zaleska
joanna.zaleska@uni-leizpig.de
LATEX for Linguists – Doktorandenforum 2015
3 March 2015
LATEX for Linguists Presentations and posters DGfS Doktorandenforum 1

Part I
Creating presentations
The beamer document class

Outline
1. Introduction
2. Basic structure of a beamer document
3. Title and table of contents
4. Blocks and columns
5. Overlays
6. Graphics
7. Themes and colours
8. Creating support materials
9. Where to find out more?

Introduction
Introduction
v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

using a projector (like this one).
v Disadvantages:
▸ You need to know LATEX to use it.
v Advantages:
▸ Created like any other LATEX document: standard LATEX commands (like
\section, \emph or \begin{itemize}) still work.
▸ Output in .pdf format – no compatibility issues.
▸ Predefined themes allow you to change the appearance of your
presentation (but you can also customize it with your own layout,
colours and fonts).
▸ Easy to create overlays.
▸ Easy to create support materials (handouts, lecture notes) from the
same source code.

Introduction
Introduction

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colours and fonts).
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Basic structure of a beamer document
v A minimal working example of a beamer presentation:
\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}
\end{document}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
This is the first (and the last) frame of my presentation.

\end{frame}
\end{document}

v A(n almost) minimal working example of a beamer presentation:
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{An informative frame title}
This is the first (and the last) frame of my presentation.
\end{frame}
\end{document}

Basic structure of a beamer document: exercise
Exercise 1
v Open the file dgfs-beamer-practice.tex.
v Compile it to see if it works.
v Your presentation contains one frame only. Add two more frames.
Give each of them a different title.

Exercise 1

Exercise 1

Exercise 1
Possible answer
...
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The second frame}
This is the second frame of my presentation.
\end{frame}

Title and table of contents
Title frame
v To include a title in your presentation, you need to do two things:

1. Define the title (and subtitle), author(s), affiliation(s) and date in the
preamble using the following commands:
\title[short title]{long title},

\subtitle[short subtitle]{long subtitle},
\author[short author]{long author},
\date[short date]{long date},
\institution[short institution]{long institution}
Note 1: the short versions will be displayed in headlines/footlines.
Note 2: there is no \email command!
2. Create a frame containing the \titlepage command.

Title frame



Title frame



Title frame: exercise
Exercise 2
v Complete the missing information in the preamble of the
dgfs-beamer-practice.tex file: your name, your university and the
title of the presentation (note that I’ve included an additional
command, \inst, which has to be used when there are several
affiliations.).
v At the beginning of the document, add a slide with the \titlepage
command.

Exercise 2
v Complete the missing information in the preamble of the
dgfs-beamer-practice.tex file: your name, your university and the
title of the presentation (note that I’ve included an additional
command, \inst, which has to be used when there are several
affiliations.).
v At the beginning of the document, add a slide with the \titlepage
command.

Possible answer
\author[Zaleska et al.]{Joanna Zaleska\inst{1} \and Noam

Chomsky\inst{2}}
\institute[Leipzig and MIT]{
\inst{1}University of Leipzig \and
\inst{2}Massachusetts Institute of Technology}
\title[First presentation]{My first presentation in beamer}
\date[3 Mar 2015]{DGfS Doktorandenforum, 3 March 2015}
\begin{document}
...

Possible answer
\author[Zaleska et al.]{Joanna Zaleska\inst{1} \and Noam

Chomsky\inst{2}}
\institute[Leipzig and MIT]{
\inst{1}University of Leipzig \and
\inst{2}Massachusetts Institute of Technology}
\title[First presentation]{My first presentation in beamer}
\date[3 Mar 2015]{DGfS Doktorandenforum, 3 March 2015}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}

Table of contents
v Like in other LATEX classes the \tableofcontents command generates

a list of all the sections (and subsections) in your document.
v In beamer, the table of contents contains clickable links that take you
to the beginning of a given (sub)section.
v The \section{section name} and \subsection{subsection
name} commands are given between the frames. These commands do
not generate any text on the slides. Rather, they add an entry to the
table of contents (and to the navigation bars if your presentation has
them).
v The \section*{section name} command only adds an entry in the
navigation bars but not in the table of contents.

Table of contents: exercise
Exercise 3
v In dgfs-beamer-practice.tex create a section that contains your
three frames (but not the title frame). Call the section My first frames.
v Create a subsection for the first of the three frames. Call it Frame
created by the teacher.
v Create a subsection for the remaining two frames. Call it Frames
created by me.
v Create a new frame, titled Outline after the title frame. Put the
\tableofcontents command in this frame.
v Compile the code twice.

Exercise 3
created by me.

Exercise 3
created by me.

Exercise 3
created by me.

Exercise 3
created by me.


Answer
...
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The first frame}
This is the first frame of my presentation.
\end{frame}
...


Answer
...
\end{frame}
\section{My first frames}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}
...


Answer
...
\end{frame}

\subsection{Frame created by the teacher}
\begin{frame}
\end{frame}
...


Answer
...
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\end{frame}
\subsection{Frame created by me}

...


Answer
...
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Outline}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\end{frame}
\subsection{Frame created by me}

...

Blocks and columns
Blocks, alert blocks and example blocks

v Beamer offers several ways to structure your frames.
v One is an environment for typesetting a block of text with a heading:
Block
\begin{block}{Title}
...
\end{block}
v The title field is obligatory but it may be left empty. This will generate a
block with no title.
v There are other block types with their own colour scheme (their exact
appearance depends on the theme used).
Example block Alert block
\begin{exampleblock}{Title} \begin{alertblock}{Title}
... ...
\end{exampleblock} \end{alertblock}
Blocks and columns

Block
...
\end{block}
... ...
Blocks and columns

Block
...
\end{block}
... ...
Blocks and columns
Blocks: exercise
Exercise 4
v In one of the frames you creates in the dgfs-beamer-practice.tex
file, create two blocks: one example block and one alert block.
v Title both blocks. Put one line of text in the first block and two lines of
text in the second block.

Blocks and columns
Blocks: exercise
Exercise 4

Blocks and columns
Blocks: exercise
Exercise 4
Possible answer
\begin{exampleblock}{Block 1: example block}
One line of text.
\end{exampleblock}
\begin{alertblock}{Block 2: alert block}

First line of text.\\Second line of text.
\end{alertblock}

Blocks and columns
Columns
v To structure your frame, you can also split (a part of ) it into multiple
columns.
v To do this, use the columns environment:
\begin{columns}
...
\end{columns}
v To begin a new column, use \column{width}, e.g.
\column{0.4\textwidth}

Blocks and columns
Columns
v To structure your frame, you can also split (a part of ) it into multiple
columns.
v To do this, use the columns environment:
\begin{columns}
...
\end{columns}
v To begin a new column, use \column{width}, e.g.

Blocks and columns
Columns: exercise
Exercise 5
v Put the two blocks you created in the previous exercise into two
columns of equal width.
v You may notice that the columns are misaligned. To fix this, add [t] to
the \begin{columns} command. This will cause the first lines of the
two columns to be aligned.

Blocks and columns
Columns: exercise
Exercise 5
v Put the two blocks you created in the previous exercise into two
columns of equal width.
v You may notice that the columns are misaligned. To fix this, add [t] to
the \begin{columns} command. This will cause the first lines of the
two columns to be aligned.

Blocks and columns
Columns: exercise
Possible answer
\begin{columns}
One line of text.
\end{exampleblock}
\end{alertblock}
\end{columns}

Blocks and columns
Columns: exercise
Possible answer
\begin{columns}[t]
One line of text.
\end{exampleblock}
\end{alertblock}
\end{columns}

Overlays
The \pause command
v To focus the audience’s attention on the information that is currently

being discussed, you can show parts of the frame incrementally, that
is, create overlays.
v The easiest way to do it is to use the \pause command between the
parts that you want to show separately.
v If you use the \pause command somewhere in a frame, only the text
on the frame up to the \pause command is shown on the first slide.
On the second slide, everything is shown up to the second \pause,
and so forth.
v This is an illustration of the \pause command.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command

and so forth.

Overlays
The \pause command: exercise
Exercise 6
v Make the second line of text in the alert block you created appear after
the first line has been shown.

Overlays
The \pause command: exercise
Exercise 6
v Make the second line of text in the alert block you created appear after
the first line has been shown.
Possible answer
First line of text.\\\pause Second line of text.
\end{alertblock}

Overlays
Overlay specifications
v For more fine-grained control over what is shown on each slide, you
can add overlay specifications to certain commands.
v Overlay specifications are given in pointy brackets: <>. A command
with an overlay specification will only take effect on the slides
mentioned in the specification, for example:
▸ <3>: on slide 3.
▸ <2->: from slide 2 on.
▸ <2-4>: from slide 2 to slide 4.
▸ <-2,4-5,7->: on all slides except slides 3 and 6.

Overlays
v Adding overlay specifications to evironments will make the whole

environment appear on the specified slides only, e.g.
▸ \begin{block}<3>{...} displays the block on slide 3.
▸ \begin{columns}<2->{...} displays the columns from slide 2 on.
v Adding [<+->] to the itemize environment will make the items
appear in a stepwise fashion.
v You can also add overlay specifications to certain commands, e.g.
▸ \item<3>{...} displays the item on slide 3.
▸ \column<2->{...} displays the column from slide 2 on.
▸ \includegraphics<-3>[...]{...} displays the image up to slide 3.

Overlays


Overlays


Overlays
Overlay specifications: exercise
Exercise 7
v Make the alert block appear from slide 2 on.

Overlays
Exercise 7
Possible answer
\begin{alertblock}<2->{Block 2: alert block}
\end{alertblock}

Overlays
Exercise 7
v Notice that when the block is displayed it contains both lines of text.
This is because the \pause command doesn’t read the overlay counter.
All it know is “I am the first \pause command on this frame! That is,
everything that follows me should appear from slide 2 on!” To make
the second line appear later, use \pause[number].
Possible answer
\end{alertblock}

Overlays
Exercise 7
v Notice that when the block is displayed it contains both lines of text.
This is because the \pause command doesn’t read the overlay counter.
All it know is “I am the first \pause command on this frame! That is,
everything that follows me should appear from slide 2 on!” To make
the second line appear later, use \pause[number].
Possible answer
First line of text.\\\pause[3] Second line of text.
\end{alertblock}

Overlays
Overlay specifications and text formatting
v When you add an overlay specification to a command responsible for

text formatting, the text wil only be formatted on the specified slide(s):
▸ \emph<2>{text}: The text will be emphasized on slide 2.
▸ \textbf<3>{text}: The text will be set in boldface on slide 3.
▸ \textit<4>{text}: The text will be italicized on slide 4.
▸ \alert<5>{text}: The text will be highlighted on slide 5.
▸ {\color<6>{purple}text}: The text will be purple on slide 6.
▸ \structure<7>{text}: The text will be marked as part of the structure
on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays

on slide 7.

Overlays
Overlay specifications and text formatting: exercise
Exercise 8
v Find the following lines of code in the dgfs-beamer-practice.tex
file and remove them. Then re-compile the file.
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)––––––––––––––––%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)–––––––––––––––-%

v The frame titled The fourth frame contains a list. Make the items on this
list appear in a stepwise fashion.
v There are three sentences below the list. Make them true.

Overlays
Exercise 8
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)––––––––––––––––%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)–––––––––––––––-%


Overlays
Exercise 8
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)––––––––––––––––%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)–––––––––––––––-%


Overlays
Answer
\begin{itemize}[<+->]
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
This line is set in boldface on slides 5-6.\\

This line is highlighted on slides 4 and 6.
This line is green on slide 7.\\

Overlays
Answer
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}
\textbf<5-6>{This line is set in boldface on slides 5-6.}\\

This line is highlighted on slides 4 and 6.

Overlays
Answer
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}

\alert<4,6>{This line is highlighted on slides 4 and 6.}\\

Overlays
Answer
\item Item 1
\item Item 2
\item Item 3
\end{itemize}

\alert<4,6>{This line is highlighted on slides 4 and 6.}\\
{\color<7>{green}This line is green on slide 7.}\\

Overlays
Special overlay commands
v Beamer also has commands that have special overlay specifications

(which affect the text within the brackets):
\uncover<2>{text} The text is only shown on slide 2. On non-
specified slides, it still occupies space
but is not shown or is shown as semi-
transparent (depending on the trans-
parency settings of the presentation).
\only<3>{text} The is only shown on slide 3. On non-
specified slides, it occupies no space.
\visible<4>{text} The is only shown on slide 4. On non-
specified slides, it still occupies space but
it is never shown.
\invisible<5>{text} The text is not shown on slide 5 (though
it still occupies space).
and more...
Overlays

it is never shown.
and more...
Overlays

\only<3>{text} The text is only shown on slide 3. On non-
it is never shown.
and more...
Overlays

\visible<4>{text} The text is only shown on slide 4. On non-
it is never shown.
and more...
Overlays

it is never shown.
\invisible<5>{text} The is not shown on slide 5 (though
and more...
Graphics
Including graphics
v If you use beamer with pdflatex (you do), you can use graphic files
with the extensions .pdf, .jpg, .jpeg and .png.
v Add them to your presentation by invoking the
\includegraphics[scale=xx]{imagename} command (you will also
need to put \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble). Do not
include file extensions.
v The size of beamer slides is 128x96mm. You may need to scale your
images accordingly!

Graphics
Exercise 9
v Add another frame at the end of your file.
v Include the igra.pdf image (located in the images folder). Make it
7cm wide.

Graphics
Exercise 9
v Add another frame at the end of your file.
v Include the igra.pdf image (located in the images folder). Make it
7cm wide.
Possible answer
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{The fifth frame}
\includegraphics[width=7cm]{images/igra}
\end{frame}

Themes and colours
Presentation themes
v To change the appearance of your presentation, you may select one of

predefined themes. Presentation themes dictate the appearance of
every single detail of a presentation.
v Install a theme using the \usetheme{theme name} command.
v Available themes:
▸ Without navigation bar: default, Bergen, Boadilla, Madrid,
AnnArbor, CambridgeUS, EastLansing, Pittsburgh, Rochester
▸ With a treelike navigation bar: Antibes, JuanLesPins, Montpellier.
▸ With a TOC sidebar: Berkeley, PaloAlto, Goettingen, Marburg,
Hannover
▸ With a mini frame navigation: Berlin, Ilmenau, Darmstadt, Dresden,
Frankfurt, Singapore, Szeged
▸ With section and subsection titles: Copenhagen, Luebeck, Malmoe,
Warsaw

Themes and colours
Presentation themes: exercise
Exercise 10
v Install any theme in your presentation.

Themes and colours
Presentation themes: exercise
Exercise 10
v Install any theme in your presentation.
Possible answer
\usetheme{Warsaw}

Themes and colours
Other themes
v If you don’t like the default settings of a given presentation theme, you
may override them, using themes that define one aspect of the
presentation’s appearance. Those are:
▸ Inner themes, which specify how certain elements of a presentation are
typeset. This includes all enumerations, itemize environments, block
environments, theorem environments and the table of contents.
▸ Outer themes, which specify what the “outside” or “border” of the
presentation slides should look like (headlines, footlines, navigation bar,
etc.).
▸ Colour themes, which dictate which colours are used in the
presentation.
▸ Font themes, which dictate which fonts or font attributes are used.

Themes and colours
Inner and outer themes
v Command: \useinnertheme{}
v Predefined themes: default, circles, rectangles, rounded,
shadow, inmargin
v Command: \useouthertheme{}
v Predefined themes: default, infolines, miniframes, smoothbars,
sidebar, split, shadow, tree, smoothtree

Themes and colours
Colour themes
v Command: \usecolortheme{}
v Predefined complete colour themes: default, albatross, beetle,
crane, dove, fly, monarca, seagull, wolverine, beaver, spruce
v Predefined inner colour themes: lily, orchid, rose
v Predefined outer colour themes: whale, seahorse, dolphin

Themes and colours
Font themes
v Command: \usefonttheme{}
v Predefined themes: default, professionalfonts, serif,
structurebold, structureitalicserif,
structuresmallcapsserif

Creating support materials
Printing slides without overlays
v If you try to print a presentation that has overlays, each overlay slide
will be printed separately. To create a version of your presentation with
no overlays simply add the handout option to the document class, i.e.
the first line of your file should be
\documentclass[handout]{beamer}.

Making proper handouts
v Another option is to convert your presentation to the article class.

To do this, you will need to:
1. Change the document class to article (i.e. the first line should be
minimally something like documentclass[a4paper]{article}).
2. Load the beamerarticle package (\usepackage{beamerarticle}).
This package defines almost all of beamer’s commands in a way that can
be understood by the article class.
3. Replace the \titlepage command in the title frame with the
\maketitle command.
4. To suppres frame titles, add
\mode<article>
{\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{}}
to the preamble.


\maketitle command.
\mode<article>
to the preamble.


\maketitle command.
\mode<article>
to the preamble.


\maketitle command.
\mode<article>
to the preamble.


\maketitle command.
\mode<article>
to the preamble.

Making handouts: exercise
Homework :-)
v Make a copy of the dgfs-beamer-practice.tex file. Name it
dgfs-beamer-practice-article.tex
v Convert the new file to an article-like handout.

Where to find out more?
Some useful documents
v Beamer user guide (245 page long!): http://www.ctan.org/tex-

archive/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf
v Beamer theme matrix (illustrating different theme and colour
combinations): https://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
v Beamer appearance cheat sheet (very useful for customizing the
appearance of your presentation): http://www.cpt.univ-
mrs.fr/ masson/latex/Beamer-appearance-cheat-sheet.pdf
v Beamer template for a 20-minute presentation:
conference-ornate-20min.en.tex on your computer.
v Beamer template for a 2-minute presentation:
speaker_introduction-ornate-2min.en.tex on your computer.

Part II
Creating posters
The tikzposter document class

Outline
1. Introduction
2. Options for the document class
3. Title matter
4. Blocks
5. Columns and subcolumns
6. Block objects
7. Notes
8. Modifying the appearance of the poster
9. Where to find out more?

Introduction
Introduction
v The tikzposter document class can be used to format and create

scientific posters in the .pdf format.
v It uses the drawing package TikZ to generate poster layout.
v A poster contains a series of blocks in a sequence of aligned columns.

Options for the document class
Basic options for the document class
v To use tikzposter, begin the document with

\documentclass[options]{tikzposter}
v Some useful options:
▸ Font size: 12pt, 14pt, 17pt, 20pt, 25pt
▸ Paper size: a0paper, a1paper, a2paper
▸ Orientation: landscape, portrait

Basic options for the document class: exercise
Exercise 1
v Open the file dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex.
v Change the poster’s size to A1, its orientation to portrait and the font
size to 20pt.

Exercise 1
size to 20pt.

Exercise 1
size to 20pt.

Exercise 1
size to 20pt.
Answer
\documentclass[20pt, a0paper, landscape]{tikzposter}

Title matter
The title: basic options
v Information for the title is defined in the usual manner, using

\author{}, \institute{} and \title{}.
v There is an additional option \titlegraphic{} for inserting your
university’s logo.
v The title is created using the \maketitle command

Title matter
More complicated titles
Problems with the title block

8 The title block is obligatory. Omitting it causes formatting errors.
8 The \and command (used to separate two or more authors) doesn’t
work. To include more than two authors you can either...
▸ ... simply treat them as one very long author or...
▸ ... redefine the title matter using the \settitle{} command
(see the appendix for the code I use to generate a poster that has two
separate authors).

Title matter
The title: exercise
Exercise 2
v In the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file, change the author name
to your own.
v Change the institution name to yours.
v Remove the IGRA logo from the title block.

Title matter
The title: exercise
Exercise 2
to your own.

Title matter
The title: exercise
Exercise 2
to your own.

Title matter
The title: exercise
Exercise 2
to your own.
Answer
\title{My first poster}
\institution{Your institution goes here}
\author{Your name goes here}
\titlegraphic{\includegraphics{images/igra}}

Blocks
Blocks: the basics
v The command \block[options]{title }{text } creates a block of

the width of the page (or column/subcolumn).
v If the {title } field is left empty, the block will have no title.
v The contents of the {text } field are displayed in the body of the
block.
v Each further block is displayed below the previous ones.

Blocks
Blocks: exercise
Exercise 3
v In the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file there are 3 blocks. Create
two more blocks after the existing ones.

Blocks
Blocks: exercise
Exercise 3
v In the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file there are 3 blocks. Create
two more blocks after the existing ones.
Answer
\block{}{This is the content of the third block.\\This block
does not have a title.}
\block{Block 4}{This is could be the 1st of your 2 blocks.}
\block{Block 5}{This is could be the 2nd of your 2 blocks.}

Columns and subcolumns
Columns and subcolumns: basic options
v To put the blocks into 2 or more columns, use the columns

environment (\begin{columns}...\end{columns}).
v To begin a new column, use \column{width} (e.g. \column{0.4}).
The sum of the column widths should not exceed 1.
v To create columns within columns, use the subcolumns environment
(\begin{subcolumns}...\end{subcolumns}) and the
\subcolumn{width} command. The width of the subcolumns is
relative to the width of the matrix column.

Columns and subcolumns: exercises
Exercise 4
v You now have 5 blocks. Put them in two columns so that...
▸ ... the first column takes up 35% of the poster’s width and contains the
first two blocks and...
▸ ... the second column fills the remaining space and contains the last
three blocks.

Exercise 4
three blocks.
Answer
\block{Block 1}{...} \block{Block 2}{...}
\block{Block 3}{...} \block{Block 4}{...} \block{Block

5}{...}

Exercise 4
three blocks.
Answer
\begin{columns}

5}{...}
\end{columns}

Exercise 4
three blocks.
Answer
\begin{columns}
\column{0.35}
\column{0.65}
5}{...}
\end{columns}

Exercise 5
v Now put blocks 4 and 5 into two subcolumns of equal width.

Exercise 5
Answer
\block{Block 3}{...}
\end{columns}

Exercise 5
Answer
\begin{subcolumns}
\end{subcolumns}
\end{columns}

Exercise 5
Answer
\begin{subcolumns}
\subcolumn{0.5}
\subcolumn{0.5}
\end{subcolumns}
\end{columns}

Block objects
Inner blocks, coloured boxes and figures
v There are three types of special objects that can be placed inside
blocks. These are:
▸ Inner blocks (blocks within blocks), generated by the command
\innerblock[options]{heading}{text}.
▸ Coloured boxes (for emphasizing parts of the block body) called by the
command \coloredbox[options]{text}
▸ Figures (for illustrations/trees/tables with captions). Because the
standard figure environment doesn’t work in tikzposter, you have
to use the tikzfigure environment:
\begin{tikzfigure}[Caption of the figure]

\label{fig:fig1}
Figure
\end{tikzfigure}

Block objects
blocks. These are:

\label{fig:fig1}
Figure
\end{tikzfigure}

Block objects
blocks. These are:

\label{fig:fig1}
Figure
\end{tikzfigure}

Block objects
blocks. These are:

\label{fig:fig1}
Figure
\end{tikzfigure}

Block objects
blocks. These are:

\label{fig:fig1}
Figure
\end{tikzfigure}

Block objects
Block objects: exercise (?)
Exercise 6
v To see what inner blocks, coloured boxes and figures look like, find the
following lines of code in the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file
and remove them. Then re-compile the file.
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)––––––––––––––––%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)–––––––––––––––-%

Block objects
Block objects: exercise (?)
Exercise 6
v To see what inner blocks, coloured boxes and figures look like, find the
following lines of code in the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file
and remove them. Then re-compile the file.
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)––––––––––––––––%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (1)–––––––––––––––-%
Answer
That wasn’t an exercise really, was it?

Notes
Notes: basic options
v Notes are smaller objects associated with blocks that can be used to
comment on specific points in the block.
v They are created with the \note[options]{contents } command.
v Some useful options are...
▸ ... targetoffsetx, targetoffsety: by default, the note places a
“target” in the centre of the block. These two options can be used to
shift the target (positive values result in a shift right/upwards and
negative values in a shift left/downwards).
▸ ... width: width of the note.
▸ ... rotate: rotation angle for the entire note.
v A sample note:
\note[targetoffsetx=1cm, targetoffsety=-2cm, width=6cm,
rotate=45]{This is a note}

Notes
v A sample note:

Notes
v A sample note:

Notes
Notes: exercises
Exercise 7
v Find the following code in the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex file
and remove it. Then re-compile the file.
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%

v You should see a new block with two notes attached to it. Move the
note linked to the word “THIS” so that it connects to the word “THAT”.

Notes
Notes: exercises
Exercise 7
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%


Notes
Notes: exercises
Exercise 7
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%
\end{document}
%––––––––––––––––CUT HERE (2)–––––––––––––––-%

Possible answer
\note[targetoffsetx=-4cm, targetoffsety=-.5cm, angle=300,
connection, radius=8cm]{This is a note \\with some
additional information}
Notes
Notes: exercises
Exercise 8
v Make the second note 7cm wide and rotated by 45○ .

Notes
Notes: exercises
Exercise 8
v Make the second note 7cm wide and rotated by 45○ .
Answer
\note[targetoffsetx=10cm, rotate=45, roundedcorners=50,
width=7cm]{This is another note}

Modifying the appearance of the poster
Themes
v If you don’t like the default appearance of your poster, tikzposter

provides many options that allow you to change the shape and
colours of each of its elements.
v One way to change the appearance of your poster is to use a
predefined layout theme by means of the \usetheme{layout style}
command.
v The predefined themes are Default, Rays, Basic, Simple, Envelope,
Wave, Board, Autumn and Desert. You can also create your own theme.

Themes: exercise
Exercise 9
v Change the theme of the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex poster to
a different one.

Themes: exercise
Exercise 9
v Change the theme of the dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex poster to
a different one.
Possible answer
\usetheme{Envelope}

Colour styles
v Each poster uses three basic colours. You can change the colour
scheme of your poster using the \usecolors[colour
palette]{colour style} command.
v tikzposter includes the following colour palettes: Default,
BlueGrayOrange, GreenGrayViolet, PurpleGrayBlue and
BrownBlueOrange, so a sample set of options might be
[colorPalette=BlueGrayOrange].
v The colour style defines which elements of your poster use which of
the three basic colours. The predefined styles are Default,
Australia, Britain, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Denmark and Germany.

Colour styles

Colour styles

Colours: exercise
Exercise 10
v Change the colour style and the colour palette of the
dgfs-tikzposter-practice.tex poster to different ones.
v To do that, you will need to uncomment the \usecolorstyle
command (that is, remove the % symbol at the beginning of the line).

Colours: exercise
Exercise 10

Colours: exercise
Exercise 10
Possible answer
\usecolorstyle[colorPalette=BlueGrayOrange]{Russia}

Customizing elements of the poster
v You can make individual changes to the elements of your poster using
the following commands:
▸ \usebackgroundstyle{} (Default, Rays, VerticalGradation,
BottomVerticalGradation or Empty
▸ \usetitlestyle{} (Default, Basic, Envelope, Wave,
VerticalShading, Filled or Empty)
▸ \useblockstyle{} (Default, Basic, Minimal, Envelope, Corner,
Slide or TornOut)
▸ \usenotestyle{} (Default, Corner, VerticalShading or Sticky)
v You can also define define your own colour palette in the options of
the \usecolors command, e.g. [colorOne=RawSienna,
colorTwo=YellowOrange, colorThree=ForestGreen]
(to use named colours, you need to add dvipsnames in the options for the document class).

Customizing elements of the poster: exercise
Homework :-)
v Make your poster pretty!

Where to find out more?
Some useful documents
v Class documentation:
http://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/contrib/tikzposter/tikzposter.pdf
v An illustration of all TikZposter themes:
https://bitbucket.org/surmann/tikzposter/downloads/themes.pdf
v TikZposter style and theme guide:
https://bitbucket.org/surmann/tikzposter/downloads/styleguide.pdf
v TikZposter template with a minimal set of inputs:
tikzposter-template.tex on your computer.
v TikZposter example with more extensive comments and additional
options: tikzposter-example.tex on your computer.
v List of named colours: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors

Part III
Appendix

Appendix Poster title with two authors
Redefining the title matter I
\settitle{
\centering \vbox{ \centering
\color{titlefgcolor} {\bfseries \Huge \sc \@title \par}
\vspace*{1.5em}
{\huge \@author \par} \vspace*{1em} {\LARGE \@institute} }}
bs{}title{\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering Poster title}}
\institute{
\begin{minipage}{.50\linewidth}
\center Institution 1 \end{minipage}\hfill
\center Institution 2 \end{minipage}
\end{minipage}
}

Appendix Poster title with two authors
Redefining the title matter II
\author{
\center
Author1\vspace{-0.5em}\\{\normalsize\texttt{auth1@uni-1.de}}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{.40\linewidth} \center
Author2\vspace{-0.5em}\\{\normalsize\texttt{auth2@uni-2.de}}
\end{minipage}
\end{minipage}
}
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The beamer and tikzposter classes

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2. Basic structure of a beamer document

3. Title and table of contents

4. Blocks and columns

7. Themes and colours

8. Creating support materials

9. Where to find out more?

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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v The beamer document class can be used to create presentations given

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Basic structure of a beamer document

v A minimal working example of a beamer presentation:

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Basic structure of a beamer document

v A minimal working example of a beamer presentation:

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Basic structure of a beamer document

v A minimal working example of a beamer presentation:

This is the first (and the last) frame of my presentation.

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Basic structure of a beamer document

v A(n almost) minimal working example of a beamer presentation:

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Basic structure of a beamer document: exercise

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Basic structure of a beamer document: exercise

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Basic structure of a beamer document: exercise

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Basic structure of a beamer document: exercise

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v To include a title in your presentation, you need to do two things:

\title[short title]{long title},

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v To include a title in your presentation, you need to do two things:

\title[short title]{long title},

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v To include a title in your presentation, you need to do two things:

\title[short title]{long title},

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Title frame: exercise

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Title frame: exercise

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