Unofficial University of Manchester Beamer Theme
Provides a (very nice looking) Beamer theme that matches the official University of Manchester PowerPoint Style.
"University of Manchester" and associated logos are copyright of the University of Manchester -- please see http://www.brand.manchester.ac.uk
Installation
A beginner's introduction, and complete install guide may be found here
To use the theme, ensure the following files are copied into somewhere like:
~/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes
or /usr/share/texmf/
...
- beamercolorthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
- beamerfontthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
- beamerinnerthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
- beamerouterthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
- beamerthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
- TAB_allwhite.pdf
- TAB_col_white_background.pdf
Then run texhash
as yourself.
Font Installation
If you want to use the Cabin font (see below), you'll either need a recent TeXlive release, or will have to install it from CTAN:
- Cabin itself, http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cabin
- AND
ifluatex
, http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ifluatex
Not for the faint hearted!
Usage
Once installed, you can use the theme as:
\documentclass[t]{beamer}
\usetheme[..options..]{UniversityOfManchester}
Options
dark
darktitle
cabin
[Replaces the default font with Cabin, much nicer!]framenumber
totalframenumber
[Only works ifframenumber
is also set!]titleframestart
Sets the number of the title frame (e.g.,titleframestart=1
(default is 0)compress
[Reduces the logo padding by half, this is a Bad Thing™]
You can also use plain
on a slide to hide the logo and gain some extra space.
The following colours are defined for your use:
uompurple
uomyellow
uomgrey
Environments
You can use the darkframes
environment to make a enclosed frames look like the title slide (e.g. for use for presentations overviews, ask for questions, presenter information.)
It is recommended (i.e. you'll get an error otherwise) that you wrap any darkframes environments so that they
only appear in presentations.
\mode<presentation>
\begin{darkframes}
% ...
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{A Dark Frame}
% ...
\end{frame}
% ...
\end{darkframes}
\mode
<all>
A Fun Note
Older versions of Beamer require you to put
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{...title...}
% ...
\end{frame}
Instead of the (much nicer) \begin{frame}{...title...}
- be aware of this!
License
Based partially upon http://nschloe.blogspot.de/2009/04/ua-beamer-theme_15.html, This file may be distributed and/or modified
- under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
- under the GNU Public License.