I am using the theme CambridgeUS
for a beamer
presentation. I encounter the following problem. Here is my heading.
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\title{Title of my talk}
\author{John Smith}
\date{April 12, 2047}
\begin{document}
\frame{\titlepage}
...
\end{document}
Now, LaTeX will print correctly "John Smith" as the name of the author on the first frame. It also appears at the bottom of every frame but then with "( )" after the name. I don't know how to get rid of those parentheses. Is there a way to do so?
Best Answer
Howdy those are the brackets for the short-institute which may be defined as follows:
To get rid of those brackets you need to alter the theme:
This is exactly the definition as found in
beamerouterthemeinfolines.sty
(which is used byCambridgeUS
) minus the brackets. (If you don't want to display an institute just leave it blank)Update 12/2012
There has been an update which automatically checks if
\institute
is used or not. So with newer beamer versions, there should be no brackets at all, as long nowhere\institute
is called. Checked with version 3.24 A of thebeamer
class.