diff --git a/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md b/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md deleted file mode 100644 index 6c58ec3..0000000 --- a/content/blog/beamer-gen-slide-at-section.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: "Quick Beamer: Generating a slide at the beginning of each section" -date: 2024-06-15T19:26:27-07:00 -draft: false -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 deleted file mode 100644 index 1f0d42d..0000000 Binary files a/static/files/images/blog/20240615193803.png and /dev/null differ