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Empty line on a slide in Latex Beamer

I am using Latex Beamer for creating a presentation. On one slide I have \frame { \frametitle{fdjsljklfdjs} What is fdjsljklfdjs \begin{itemize} \item item one \item item one \end{itemize} Why do we want to know it \begin{itemize} …
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LaTeX vs Powerpoint for presentations

I had been wondering what are the advantages of using LaTeX (specifically the presentation packages: beamer or texpower) over powerpoint for presentations. The advantages which I have seen on the web point to the fact that LaTeX can output PDFs…
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Using Latex beamer and natbib packages at the same time

When I use both \documentclass{beamer} and \usepackage{natbib} I get the following error when running latex ! LaTeX Error: \newblock undefined. How can I solve this? If beamer and natbib are incompatible, is there any other beamer compatible…
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Sophisticated PDF presentation on a secondary display

I am using MacTeX (LaTeX or XeTeX, depending on the task) with Beamer class to generate my presentations which are hence in a PDF format. I would like to run presentations just as in Apple Keynote – that is fullscreen, in native resolution of the…
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How to present a PDF with notes on presenter screen?

Possible Duplicate: Tools for presenting PDF slides with presenter notes on second display I want to show a presentation such that the slides are shown on the projector while I see slide-related notes on my laptop screen. I am using…
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LaTeX (beamer) -- Is there a way to suppress the caption tag of "Figure X:" or "Table X:"?

I am making a beamer presentation of someone else's research paper (so I don't have the original tex code). I am using pdfs of the tables in the presentation but wanted to cut out all of the original captions, which can be a bit wordy for a…
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Delete partially uncovered slides from a PDF presentation/Beamer?

I often have to work on PDF converted presentations where the author wanted to show only part of each slide on every page (e.g. only the problem was shown with a blank space underneath, then the next page (same slide) would have the same problem but…
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Latex Beamer problem

I am preparing a Beamer slide with two simple equations. I wanna include this in a block as shown below. \begin{block}{Equation} \begin{align*} r &= a + b \\ s &= c + d \end{align*} \end{block} It looks alright, the only problem is that it wastes…
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Why does player software fail to play movie in Acrobat Reader (Windows 7)?

I have created a pdf using beamer including movies by using the instruction: \movie[width=10cm,height=7cm]{Title}{videoname.avi} For previous versions of Acrobat Reader, I have never had a problem with reading the videos. But now for some reason, I…
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How can I make LyX work with Beamer on Windows 7?

What do I need to install and/or do to use LyX for Beamer documents on Windows 7? I've installed LyX and MiKTeX, but when I try to create a new Beamer document, I get an error.
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