diff --git a/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md b/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b992918 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +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/) + diff --git a/static/files/images/blog/20240615193803.png b/static/files/images/blog/20240615193803.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f0d42d Binary files /dev/null and b/static/files/images/blog/20240615193803.png differ