This document provides instructions for creating polished presentations in LaTeX. It covers topics like inserting tables, figures, and subfiles; displaying mathematics; including code listings; and adding references. The document contains examples of tables, figures, equations, algorithms, and other elements to demonstrate LaTeX features for technical presentations. It concludes by noting that the theme source code and a demo presentation are available on GitHub under a Creative Commons license.

1. Creating Polished Presentations
Valerii Klymchuk
www.voklymchuk.com
West New York, July 3, 2020.
Centre for Modern Templates

2. Outline i
Introduction
Tables, figures and subfiles
Tables and Figures
Cross-references
Sub section through input command
Displaying Mathematics
Inline Mode
Display Mode
Code Listings and Using Symbols
Conclusion
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3. Thanks for your attention. Pay attention here...
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4. Introduction

5. This is going to be a normal paragraph in our introduction.
Some intro stuff
Observation
This is a very important piece of information.
Some other stuff ...
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6. Blocks
Three different block environments are pre-defined and may
be styled with an optional background color.
Default
Block content.
Alert
Block content.
Example
Block content.
Default
Block content.
Alert
Block content.
Example
Block content.
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7. Tables, figures and subfiles

8. To insert a figure, you can use the TeXnicecenter menus.
SP SR
VS
SP SR
VS
SP SR
VS
a) Pushed Validation b) Pulled Validation c) Delegated Validation
1
23
4
1
2
34 14 32
Figure 1: My First Figure
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9. Tikspictures
h1 h2 h3
x1 x2 x3
Figure 2: M1
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10. Multipage Xtabular table i
Table 1: Sample multipage table with repeating header
document class bibliography
style
Institute of
Electrical and
Electronics
Engineers
IEEEtran IEEEtran
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11. Multipage Xtabular table ii
Table 1 continued
document class bibliography
style
Association for
Computing Ma-
chinery
sig-alternate plain
Lecture Notes
in Computer
Science
llncs lllncs
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12. Multipage Xtabular table iii
Table 1 continued
document class bibliography
style
General article plain
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13. Gant charts
2020 2021 2022
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2
Proposal Defense
Background Study
Android Security
Code Analysis
Policy Mechanisms
Literature Review Complete
Formal Specification
Spec Document
Thesis and Paper Writing
Figure 3: My First Gantt
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14. Some text here that wants to refer to Table 1. You can also
refer to the Figure 1. When you want to refer to a previous
section, you can use the ref command again. Section 2.
This comes from a separate file. Notice that we have this
subsection included in the Navigator.
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15. Algorithms
Algorithm 1 My First Simple Algorithm
Require: Randomly populated array
Ensure: Sorted array
if i ≤ 0 then
2: i ← 1
else
4: if i ≥ 0 then
for j = 0 to 10 do
6: blah()
carryOutSomeProcessing()
8: end for
end if
10: end if
return i
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16. And of course, we can refer to the algorithm using ref: See
Algorithm 1 but the good thing is we can also refer to a
specific line e.g. Line 4 or Line 7.
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17. Displaying Mathematics

18. LATEX is extremely powerful when it comes to typesetting
mathematics. It’s one of the core strengths of this system.
There are two ways of displaying maths. One is inline and the
other is display format – in which the whole math sits on its
own set of lines.
We are going to insert a mathematics equation inline here
using a pair of $ signs: E = mc2 . As you can see, the display
(such as line spacing) does not get messed up by the
mathematics as it does with word processing softwares.
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19. We can also display equations in their own set of lines. To do
this, we can use the equation environment.
E = mc2
(1)
As you can see, LATEX inserts the equation number
automatically. We can refer to it using the ref command just
as we referred to sections, figures and tables. (E.g.
Equation 1.) To get rid of the equation number, simply use the
star variant of the equation environment. (For this, you need
the amsmath package.)
E = mc2
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20. Alternatively, we can use the shorthand keys [ and ]
E = mc2
LATEX has many builtin features and you can get many more
easily. Here, we’ll see some of these features:
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division:
x + 2 − 25 × 35 ÷ 98
Superscripts and subscripts:
x2
x(i)
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21. Summation, union, intersection, big-union, integral:
n
i=1
i2
x ∪ y ∩ z
n
i=1
xi
n
0
x2
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22. Fractions, brackets, square root:
x
y
i x2
n
0 x2
√
36
x5
2 ×
34
124
356
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23. Greek letters:
α + β + γ∗
+ Σ + Θ + 2
Matrices and vectors. For this, you need to include the
amsmath package and then use the bmatrix or pmatrix
environment:
a
44 b
c
√
d
Accents:
ˆx
ˆı
˙x 16

24. See the Math menu in the IDE for other operations. You can
refer to “Short Math Guide for LATEX” for a lot more examples.
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25. Code Listings and Using Symbols

26. You might come across situations where you need to find new
symbols. For this, you can refer to the “The Comprehensive
LATEXSymbols List”.
x y
(Optional) Since this is a long command, we might want to
create a shortcut using the newcommand command in the
preamble. This also allows us to later change the symbol
without having to change the equations.
x y
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27. LATEXCode
Listing 1: Some LATEXCode
l s t s e t {language =[ LaTeX ] tex }
l s t s e t {caption=Some LaTeX Code}
begin{ lrbox }{codebox}
begin{ l s t l i s t i n g *}[ frame= single ]{}
begin{frame}
end{frame}
end{ l s t l i s t i n g *}
end{ lrbox }
begin{frame}{LaTeX Code}
usebox{codebox}
end{frame}
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28. C++ Code
Listing 2: Some C++ Code
for(i = 0; i < 10; i++){
// increment the pointer
*p++ = i;
}
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29. Line plots
−4 −2 0 2 4
−1
−0.5
0
0.5
1
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30. Bar charts
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4
10
15
20
25
Foo
Bar
lorem
ipsum
dolor
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31. Frame footer
metropolis defines a custom beamer template to add a text
to the footer. It can be set via
setbeamertemplate{frame footer}{My custom footer}
My custom footer 23

32. References
Some references to showcase [4, 2, 5, 1, 3]
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33. Conclusion

34. Summary
Get the source of this theme and the demo presentation from
github.com/voklymchuk/latex_templates
The theme itself is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
cba
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35. Questions?
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36. Backup slides
Sometimes, it is useful to add slides at the end of your
presentation to refer to during audience questions.
The best way to do this is to include the
appendixnumberbeamer package in your preamble and call
appendix before your backup slides.
metropolis will automatically turn off slide numbering and
progress bars for slides in the appendix.

37. References i
P. Erd˝os.
A selection of problems and results in combinatorics.
In Recent trends in combinatorics (Matrahaza, 1995), pages
1–6. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1995.
R. Graham, D. Knuth, and O. Patashnik.
Concrete mathematics.
Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1989.
G. D. Greenwade.
The Comprehensive Tex Archive Network (CTAN).
TUGBoat, 14(3):342–351, 1993.

38. References ii
D. Knuth.
Two notes on notation.
Amer. Math. Monthly, 99:403–422, 1992.
H. Simpson.
Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis.
preprint (2003), available at
http://www.math.drofnats.edu/riemann.ps, 2003.