Beamer (cricket) Beamer (cricket) In the terminology of the game of cricket, a beamer (less commonly beam ball) is a type of delivery in which the ball (bowled at a fast pace), without bouncing, passes above the batsman's waist height. Such a ball is often dangerously close to the batsman's head, due to the lack of control a bowler has over high full tosses. Worse, the batsman is expecting the ball to pitch on the wicket and therefore may not pick up the flight of the ball and may be struck by it. This type of delivery can result in injuries to
Beamer (LaTeX) having a single source file for an article and the slides for the talk about this article. Beamer depends on PGF for some of its features. Beamer (LaTeX) Beamer is a LaTeX document class for creating slides for presentations. It supports both pdfLaTeX and LaTeX + dvips. The name is taken from the German word ""Beamer"" as a pseudo-anglicism for "video projector". The Beamer class is not the first LaTeX class for creating presentations, and like many of its predecessors, it has special syntax for defining "slides" (known in Beamer as "frames"). Slides can be built up on-screen in stages