Tampere University Beamer Theme

This repository contains a LaTeX Beamer class theme for Tampere University -themed presentation slides. There are two versions available, in two different aspect ratios: 4:3 and 16:9. These are located in the folders 4-3/ and 16-9/, respectively.

How-to

The files the user of these templates needs to modify are found in the folder content/. The file content/presentation-metadata.tex needs to be filled in between the braces {..} with author and presentation information, in the format

\def\myauthor{Santtu Söderholm}
\def\mytitle{An Example Presentation}
\def\mysubject{This is the subject}
\def\mykeywords{latex, beamer, presentation}
\def\myproducer{LaTeX with hyperref}
\def\mycreator{pdflatex or lualatex}

The actual subject matter or presentation is added to the file content/subject-matter.tex, in standard LaTeΧ syntax.

Local use

Depending on the expected display size, one should choose either the 4:3 or 16:9 version of the slide set for compilation. Once the document metadata has been entered and your content is in place, the presentation can be compiled by navigating to the folder that contains the desired main.tex file with

cd [folder]

where [folder] ∈ {4-3, 16-9}, and entering the command

$ [compiler] main.tex

Here [compiler] is either pdflatex or lualatex.

Note: remember that LaTeΧ compilers always look for files such as images in relation to the used main.tex file or the so-called compilation context. If you place your image file image.pdf into the content/ folder, you must then include the image with

\includegraphics{../content/image.pdf}

or your chosen LaTeΧ compiler will not find it. To make image inclusion easier, the folder content/images/ can be used to store images, in which case only

\includegraphics{image.pdf}

should be enough to include an image into a presentation.

Using the project with Overleaf

Using the project with Overleaf is as simple as downloading the latest Git-tagged version of the project as a ZIP file, uploading it to Overleaf as a new project and choosing which main file one wants to use. The downloading of the ZIP can be done on the Tags-page of this repository. Then on Overleaf, on the page that contains your projects (link), press New Project → Upload Project → Select a .zip file. Then on the generated project page, choose the desired aspect ratio for the presentation, by selecting Menu → Main document → 4-3/main.tex or 16-9/main.tex.

Possible issues

The relative TAU logo paths defined in

{4-3, 16-9}/beamerinnerthemetaupresentation.sty

might not work as intended on Windows, as at a certain point in time LaTeΧ compilers still had issues with relative paths on the operating system. If pdflatex or lualatex complains about the images not being found, a possible workaround is to copy the images from tau-logo to the same folder with main.tex and remove the prefixes ../tau-logo/ from the image paths.

Future additions

A cross-platform build script that compiles the authored presentation in both aspect ratios might be concocted later. For now, one has to manually compile both versions as the instructions above indicate.