How to make a presentation with LaTeX / TeX / Beamer

Here we will see how we can create a presentation using LaTeX / TeX / Beamer. LaTeX is a newer version of TeX. Beamer is a special class of LaTeX used to create presentations.

The options available with beamer and Latex make it a very powerful combination for making professional presentations. We start with a simple example. Here is the code for a simple presentation

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
\title{How to make a presentation using Beamer/ \LaTeX2e  ?}
\author{Gappu}
\institute{http://tech-gupshup.blogspot.co.uk/}
\date{July, 2012}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}


\begin{frame}{Introduction}
Beamer class is used to make presentations using \LaTeX. Like any \LaTeX document you can create it with any text editor. 
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Features of \textbf{Beamer}}
\begin{itemize}
 \item \textbf{Beamer} is used to make presentations 
 \item It allows to add animations
 \item you can embed images, videos , sounds and other media
\item It also has option to print handouts
\end{itemize} 
 \end{frame}
\begin{frame}{Basics}
\begin{itemize}
\item Document type for presentation id \textbf{beamer}
\item each slide is inclosed in \textbf{frame}
\item \LaTeX Code within frame is same as in any \LaTeX  document
\end{itemize} 
 \end{frame}
\begin{frame}{What Next?}
\begin{itemize}
\item This is your basic \textbf{beamer} presentation
\item save it in a .tex file and apply pdfLaTeX 
\item Enjoy presentation and read more tutorials to learn advanced techniques 
\end{itemize} 
 \end{frame}
\end{document}

Preamble

\documentclass{beamer}

Set document type beamer to tell LaTeX compiler that it is a beamer presentation

\usetheme{Frankfurt}

Set theme to Franfurt. A full list of themes is available here.

\title{How to make a presentation using Beamer/ \LaTeX2e  ?}
\author{Gappu}
\institute{http://tech-gupshup.blogspot.co.uk/}
\date{July, 2012}

Set title, author institute and date of presentation.

Body

Body of presentation is enclosed in 

\begin{document}

\end{document}

Each slide is enclosed in

\begin{frame}

\end{frame}

Here is the code for first slide

\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}

in this slide \maketitle is used to make title slide using title, author institute and date we gave in preamble