beamer-lu

Beamer template for University of Latvia
The theme was created basing on a Power Point template (http://www.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_portal/par/vesture-tradicijas-un-simbolika/logotipi/prezentacijas/LU_template.ppt) trying to maintain a visual resemblance. Though a few graphical elements were either altered or re-created to obtain sufficient quality.

Prerequisites

1. A XeLaTeX or LaTeX compilator with latex-beamer package is a must, TeX Live MiKTeX or MacTex will be just fine.

[Optional]

2. An Unicode *.tex editor like Texmaker.
3. To compile the provided 'test-lu.tex' file you should have MS true type fonts Cambria, Calibri and Consolas installed into Your system and it should be compiled using 'xelatex' command. Otherwise a few changes have to be made in the LaTeX code.
4. 'fixlatvian' (http://code.google.com/p/fixlatvian/) for writing and formatting in latvian, You can replace it with 'polyglossia' to use any language.

Installation

1. Find out Your local texmf directory (on Linux with texlive run command kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME).
2. Copy beamerthemelu.sty and pdf to <texmf_directory>/tex/latex/<somedir>.
3. Edit beamerthemelu.sty and in line 19 set the actual path to the pdf directory (e.g. /home/user/texmf/tex/latex/beamerthemelu/pdf/.
4. Run texhash on the texmf directory (texhash /home/user/texmf)
5. Check if .sty is found (Linux command kpsewhich beamerthemelu.sty).
6. You may of course use the global texmf (e.g. /usr/share/texmf-dist/) directory instead of local.

File list

• beamerthemelu.sty - main theme file
• test-lu.tex - an example LaTeX source
• test-lu.pdf - compiled exeample
• pdf/* graphical elements neccessary for successful compilation
• pdf/bg-full.pdf - background for the title page
• pdf/bg-top.pdf - background for the frame pages
• pdf/bg-watermark.pdf - watermarks for the title page
• pdf/bg-watermark-frame.pdf - watermarks for the frame pages
• pdf/lu-logo-full-page.pdf - LU logo for the title page
• pdf/lu-logo-white.pdf - LU logo for the frame pages
• svg/* - SVG source files of the graphical elements, generally not neccessary for a common user