**Sometimes** using beamer is not too far off from the definition of self-harm. Unlike LaTeX generally, beamer can be a real punch in the face (wacky errors!) if you copy-paste stuff from other .tex files esp if they are "working fine" using other compilers (PDFLaTeX! 

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LaTeX error messages do seem like they were written by a drunk person
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How do you use LaTeX to lay out slides?
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Beamer is still the easiest(heh) way I ever found
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I love Adobe InDesign, it makes standards-compliant PDFs.
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), I realise the error message is literally what I was doing wrong (just wrong line number cause LaTeX is a joker). FFS. 