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+title: "Quick Beamer: Generating a slide at the beginning of each section"
+date: 2024-06-15T19:26:27-07:00
+draft: true
+tags: ["LaTex"]
+math: false
+medium_enabled: false
+---
+
+People want to know where they are within your presentation. This is why for a class of long presentations, there's an outline slide in the beginning and section headers.
+
+Separating sections with an additional slide is nice because it not only gives an audience an opportunity for questions, but it also allows you to sneak in a sip of water.
+
+To accomplish this automatically, thanks to a tip from [James Oswald](https://jamesoswald.dev), we add the following to the preamble of our Beamer file (before the `\begin{document}`)
+
+```latex
+\AtBeginSection[]{
+  \begin{frame}
+  \vfill
+  \textbf{\insertsectionhead}
+  \vfill
+  \end{frame}
+}
+```
+
+This produces the following slide right after your `\section{}` code:
+
+![Image of beamer slide with the section text in bold](/files/images/blog/20240615193803.png)
+
+Which for me and my template is equivalent to if I typed this in the beginning of each section:
+
+```latex
+\begin{frame}
+	\textbf{First Awesome Section}
+\end{frame}
+```
+
+Saving a little bit of typing is always nice :)
+
+My slide is fairly bare-bones, another cool approach [shows the entire table of contents with every other section faded out.](https://statisticaloddsandends.wordpress.com/2019/02/18/beamer-inserting-section-slides-before-each-section/)
+