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title: "Quick Beamer: Generating a slide at the beginning of each section"
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date: 2024-06-15T19:26:27-07:00
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draft: false
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tags: ["LaTex"]
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math: false
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medium_enabled: false
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---
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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.
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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.
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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}`)
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```latex
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\AtBeginSection[]{
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\begin{frame}
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\vfill
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\textbf{\insertsectionhead}
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\vfill
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\end{frame}
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}
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```
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This produces the following slide right after your `\section{}` code:
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Which for me and my template is equivalent to if I typed this in the beginning of each section:
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```latex
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\begin{frame}
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\textbf{First Awesome Section}
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\end{frame}
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```
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Saving a little bit of typing is always nice :)
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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/)
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