Scintillating or shiny text - beamer

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I am making a presentation using beamer document class. There is a particular block of text which I want to by extra shiny or scintillating. Is there any package in latex with which one could do that? I saw an example of blinking text using animate package but that disappears and appears and so on. That's the reason that is not suitable here. I want the text to be forever there but extra shiny or scintillating to make the presentation attractive.

see also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/162734/3d-font-in-latex — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Apr 09 '18 at 11:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 09 '18 at 11:46

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You can make yourself "shiny" font. For example based on https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/85887/36296:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings,decorations.text}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}

\begin{tikzfadingfrompicture}[name=tikz]
\node [text=transparent!20]
{\fontfamily{ptm}\fontsize{45}{45}\bfseries\selectfont Ti\emph{k}Z};
\end{tikzfadingfrompicture}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\shade[path fading=tikz,fit fading=false,
top color=yellow!80!white,bottom color=black]
(-2,-1) rectangle (2,1);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

(not sure why you think that shiny font makes a presentation attractive ...)

answered Apr 09 '18 at 11:46

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz

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I just want to make a few major words attractive which are important but otherwise skipped by those you see the presentation – ShJ Apr 09 '18 at 12:59
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@ShiS I'd just colour these words, for example \alert{word} – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Apr 09 '18 at 13:01
Is there any alternative to make the shiny text given in the above answer inline. I mean suppose I want to make a particular word in a whole line as shiny – ShJ Apr 09 '18 at 13:19

Scintillating or shiny text - beamer

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