dandelight / beamer-material-theme

LaTeX Beamer Material Theme

LaTeX Beamer Material Theme

Setup

LuaTex and the roboto font are required to compile the presentation.

As an alternative, use the included docker container to produce a pdf file. Execute following commands in the directory of the cloned repository:

docker build . -t latex-beamer
docker run -v $PWD:/data/ latex-beamer example.tex

Replace example.tex with the main tex file.

Include as git submodule

Go to your working directory and clone the beamer-material-theme repository into the folder theme with

git submodule add [email protected]:peterpf/beamer-material-theme.git theme

Then do following:

• Open src/beamerthemematerial.sty and adapt the paths for the styles:

  \usepackage{theme/src/material_colors}
  \usepackage{theme/src/beamerinnerthemematerial}
  \usepackage{theme/src/beamerouterthemematerial}
  \usepackage{theme/src/beamercolorthemematerial}
  
  \directlua {
    local settings = require("theme/src/settings")
    local Utils = require("theme/src/Utils")
  }

• Adapt the references to other files in

  • src/settings.lua
  • src/Utils.lua

• Copy example.tex from src folder to theme folder:

  .
  ├── theme
  |   ├── src/
  |   ├── example.tex
  ├── example.tex
  ├── ...

• Open the copied file and look for the line that includes the theme:

  \usepackage{src/beamerthemematerial} % replace this
  \usepackage{theme/src/beamerthemematerial} % with this

• Use the copied file as a starting point for your presentation.

• Execute the docker command mentioned above in the project root folder.

Theme Configuration

Colors can be adapted via the config.lua. Undefined complementary colors will be calculated based on their respective main colors. Predefined themes are already there, choose the one you want by changing the return value of config.lua, or create your own:

return lightBlue
-- or
return darkPurple

Important Notes

• Packages that should not be included
  • graphicx or graphics as they are already included in beamer
  • transparency, svg as it messes with the tikz package's fill opacity (shadows won't be displayed correctly)

Shoutouts

• docker-luatex
• docker-texlive
• Lua Colors Library