^ \documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
^ \title{beam}
^ \author{Dennis Chen}
\titlepage
# Introduction
~ What is beam?
- beam is a file format to write presentations with
- beam is a program that converts beam files into beamer
~ Why?
beam does for beamer what Markdown does for HTML
- beamer takes far too long to write.
- We only need a subset of beamer's features
# Features
~ Frametitles
Use the \textasciitilde character to set the frametitle.
~ Bullet points
- You've already seen it in this presentation.
- Bullet points invoke the \emph{itemize} environment.
~ Block
> How to make a block
> This symbol makes a block.
~ Exampleblock
< How to make an exampleblock
< This symbol makes an exampleblock.
~ Alertblock
! How to make an alertblock
! This symbol makes an alertblock.
~ Images
Use the @ character to set a background image.
~
@beach.jpg
~
You can also use the $\ast$ characater to include an image in the slide.
*beach.jpg
# Miscellaneous
~ Stylization
beam should be written in all lowercase, even at the start of a sentence.
