Helmholtz AI beamer template

Status

Requirements

Ensure that you have an up-to-date LaTeX distribution installed on your system.

Ubuntu/Debian

$ sudo apt install texlive-full

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL

$ sudo dnf install texlive-scheme-full

TeX Live (any system)

If you don't have sudo access you can install TeX Live locally. Visit the TeX Live quick install page for instructions.

Building the slides

In order to build your slides you can use your favorite LaTeX IDE, like TeXstudio, Texmaker or even Overleaf. Please ensure that you compile it with XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX instead of the (usual default) pdfLaTeX.

You can opt to use the provided Makefile and simply typing the following in your terminal:

$ make

which uses the latexmk tool under the hood. We highly recommend latexmk when compiling on the command line since it handles the bibliography, e.g. using bib(la)tex + biber automatically.

To get rid of all the temporary files created during the compilation, use

$ make clean

To also remove final slides PDF use

$ make allclean

Alternatively, you can use the latexmk tool directly to compile your slides (either in the terminal or by setting it as the compiler in your IDE). A working .latexmkrc is included.

$ latexmk slides.tex

To get rid of all temporary files created during compilation use the -c flag (-C to also remove the final slides PDF):

$ latexmk -c

Note: At the time of writing, the contents of this repo can be readily used on overleaf.

Use standard TeX math font

In order to use the standard serif TeX math font, copy or link /path/to/beamerfontthemeserif.sty into theme/, e.g.

$ cd theme
$ ln -s /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/beamerfontthemeserif.sty beamerfontthemeserif.sty

Then on the TeX side, use

\usepackage{lmodern}
\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}

Use this theme in another talk repository

The above build workflow assumes that you use a copy of this template repo for each new talk. Instead, you may as an alternative (i) use git submodule to add this template repo to your talk's repo in order to keep track of updates or (ii) link the relevant files into your talk repos. We provide convenience scripts init-theme-submodule.sh for (i) and link-theme.sh for (ii) which can help you with that. See script.sh -h for usage examples. In both cases you may also want to copy .latexmkrc and Makefile over.

License

The Helmholtz AI beamer template is distributed under the BSD-3 license, see our LICENSE file for details.

Copyrights

The images and fonts provided as part of this LaTeX source code repository are copyrighted. As member of the Helmholtz Association you can freely use the material. For Helmholtz AI external users, you have to ensure that you are allowed to use a) the Helmholtz AI visual material, b) the Helmholtz corporate design as well as c) the Hermann Bold font and Corporate-S font family.