Basic Outline

An extremely simple Beamer document outline (taken from Overleaf) looks as follows:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\title{Sample title}
\author{Anonymous}
\institute{Overleaf}
\date{2014}


\begin{document}

\frame{\titlepage}

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Sample frame title}
  This is a text in the first frame.
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Here we see:

• Beamer document class is set with \documentclass{beamer}
• Title page info is provided as usual, and later created with \frame{\titlepage}
• The one and only non-title slide in this document is wrapped in the \begin{frame} ... \end{frame} tags. More on frames below.

This is a very basic outline, but there are many other components to creating a Beamer presentation.

Table of contents

A simple TOC frame can be added:

\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Table of Contents}
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}

Frames

Basic components of a frame:

• \frametitle{<title>}: title of frame
• \framesubtitle{<subtitle>}: subtitle of frame

Highlighting text

• \alert{highlighted}: basic inline highlights
• \begin{block}{Remark} ... \end{block}: text block (default blue)
• \begin{alertblock}{Theorem} ... \end{block}: text alertblock (default red)
• \begin{example}{Remark} ... \end{block}: text block (default green)