This template provides a beamer style file, a beamer module, and a Pandoc template to use for making beautiful presentations simply. It is customized slightly for UC, but that is easy to replace with different branding.
Get going fast with cookiecutter. Just use pip install cookiecutter to get the cookiecutter application. Then, run:
cookiecutter gh:henryiii/presentationYou will be asked a few questions. Make sure you do not add an extension to file_name; it will do that for you. You can select either LaTeX (tex) or Markdown via Pandoc (md) as the type.
It will make a new git repository, and check this repository out as a submodule. The basics will be prepared for you.
The following is the built-in support for branding, you can customize it for your University (use newcommmand or renewcommand as necessary, in the style files providecommand is used):
\newcommand{\logomax}{\node [right] at (0,1.143) {\includegraphics[height=1.3cm]{logos/UC_logo_bb.pdf}};}
\newcommand{\logomini}{\node at (1,1.143/2) {\includegraphics[height=.75cm]{logos/UC_logo_bb.pdf}};}
\newcommand{\logowidth}{2.5}To remove it:
\newcommand{\logomax}{}
\newcommand{\logomini}{}
\newcommand{\logowidth}{0}You can run ./makeslides.py if you have Plumbum (and Pandoc) installed, and all .md or .tex files will be processed if out of date. If the names match, the .md file takes preference.
If you use GitLab, you can use the CI system to build your PDFs for you. An example file for builds is included when you make a new presentation, and the output is available at https://gitlab.cern.ch/<user>/<reponame>/builds/artifacts/master/file/<file_name>.pdf?job=compile_pdf.
You might need a relative path or HTTPS path in .gitmodules to build (see this page). This is because GitLab CI uses HTTP(S) for all cloning. You'll get that option when the cookiecutter runs.