A custom LaTeX Presentation Template

Deuslirio Junior — Wed, 20 May 2020 12:26:36 +0000

In my university, we frequently need to present our studies. One option is to build our presentation using LaTeX/Beamer presentation templates.

Beamer is very powerful and practical to build presentations, but we needed a template with different style, with many slides layout, which usually is not provided by the default templates.

For example, the following image is a default template of beamer, in this template, the slides have this same layout (except for the title page).

So, with the help of some friends we built a custom LaTeX presentation template to help students, professors, or researchers to prepare their presentation slides in the format 16:9. Besides presenting a modern design concept, the template provides different slides’ layouts and color schemas to personalize the presentation.

How to use

After downloading or cloning this repository, you must edit the file presentation.tex to fill the content of the presentation. Firstly, take a look at the "Primary Definitions" part, at the begin of such a .tex, and modify its parties, whether is needed. if you compile the code without changing, it will look like this.

To set the default color of the presentation, you can use the command \setPrimaryColor{color}. This command supports one of the colors defined by the template or any color defined by the user.



\setPrimaryColor{UFGBlue}

To set the logo of the department or institute, from the authors take part, you must use the command \setLogos{path/horizontal_logo}{path/squared_logo} to inform the paths of two files. The first one is the logo in title slide - we recommend using a horizontal image - and the second one is the logo used in the remaining slides - we recommend using a square image.



\setLogos{lib/logos/infw.png}{lib/logos/infw2.png}

To define a layout for a slide, you must use the command \setLayout{layoutname}, just informing the name of the layout you would like to use. This command must be placed before the command \begin{frame} of the slide you would like to change.



\setLayout{horizontal} 
\begin{frame}
  \frametitle{Table of Contents}
  \tableofcontents
\end{frame}

To define a color for the background of a slide, you must use the command \setBGColor{color} informing a color. This command must be placed before the command \begin{frame} of the slide you would like to change. The color may be one of the template’s colors or a personalized color defined by the user.



\setBGColor{DarkOrange}

\begin{frame}

\frametitle{Pause Example}

<span class="nt">\begin{itemize}</span>
    <span class="k">\item</span> In this slide <span class="k">\pause</span>
    <span class="k">\item</span> the text will be partially visible <span class="k">\pause</span>
    <span class="k">\item</span> And finally everything will be there
<span class="nt">\end{itemize}</span>



\end{frame}



\definecolor{MyColor}{RGB}{10, 115, 110} 

\setBGColor{MyColor}

\begin{frame}

  % ... 

\end{frame}

Template's Layouts

At this momment, UFGTeXPresentation has five option for slides' layout: titlepage, vertical, horizontal, mainpoint, and blank. You can see each layout appearance at the following figure:

Summary of the Template's commands

Template Commands	Number of Params	Type of Params	Example
setLayout	1	Layout	\setLayout{vertical}
setBGColor	1	Color	\setBGColor{DarkPurple}
setPrimaryColor	1	Color	\setPrimaryColor{UFGBlue}
setLogos	2	Image URL	\setLogos{lib/logos/infw.png}{lib/logos/infw2.png}

Overleaf

Overleaf is a platform to share and coedit LaTeX projects.
This template can be easily used and modified directly in the Overleaf

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A custom LaTeX Presentation Template

How to use

Template's Layouts

Summary of the Template's commands

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