wdbm / freyja

LaTeX Beamer code

Freyja

"In the slight chance that I have not explained it perfectly I can take your questions now."

"..."

"Perfect it is then."

introduction

Freyja can be used to create Beamer slides. It demonstrates various presentations of information, including itemised lists with checkmarks, syntax-highlighted code, static images, animated images and embedded data. It provides various configuration settings.

features

• title page logo
• animated images (compatible with Adobe Reader)
• video (compatible with Okular)
• lists -- itemize, enumerate, description, description with checkmarks
• hyperlinks
• mathematics -- inline and equation
• code syntax highlighted
• emoticons
• blocks
• columns -- columns environment, multicols environment
• positioning by textblock
• multiple images -- tabular
• tables
• Feynman diagrams
• embedded data file, embedded sound file
• images in circle arrangement (TikZ)
• flow chart (TikZ)

setup

sudo apt-get -y install pdflatex
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-full
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-latex-extra
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-fonts-recommended
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-fonts-extra
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-metapost

usage

The main code (including preamble etc.) is Freyja.tex, the configuration code of style, institution, aspect ratio etc. is configuration.tex and the slides code is slides.tex. Slides can be compiled using the script compile.sh.

animated images

Animated GIFs can be converted to separate images using a procedure such as the following:

convert -coalesce Kim_Jong-un.gif Kim_Jong-un_%d.png