Name: beamer-scaffold
Owner: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - Human Genetics Informatics
Description: Beamer presentation scaffold
Created: 2015-01-23 14:12:14.0
Updated: 2015-01-30 10:02:27.0
Pushed: 2015-01-30 10:02:26.0
Size: 184
Language: Makefile
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A really simple scaffold for Beamer presentations, including a make
based build system.
The main point of entry for your presentation is main.tex. However,
you shouldn't have to mess with this.
Your presentation's title page set up (title, author, etc.) is defined
in setup/frontMatter.tex: Edit this appropriately.
If you have any addition preamble requirements – packages, commands,
whatever – they can be defined in setup/preamble.tex.
Slides must be .tex files within the slides directory. They are
collated automatically by the build system in lexicographical order,
by filename.
A BibTeX reference database is defined in setup/references.bib and
a reference slide (setup/referencesSlide.tex) is automatically
inserted at the end of the presentation: Tweak these as you see fit.
If you don't make any citations, probably best to comment all this out
to stop the compilation passes from complaining!
To build the PDF output, just run make in the project root
directory. The final output, presuming it all worked out, will end up
in the output directory and be opened with open. (If open is not
available on your platform, set the OPEN environment variable to
make.)
To build PDF handouts (i.e., the slides in their final state, without
transitions), run make handouts. The final output will end up in the
output directory, with handouts appended to the filename.
Note that the PDF will have the same name as the basename of the present
working directory, affixed with .pdf. If you want a different
filename, set the TARGET environment variable to the make command.
For example:
ET=foobar make
make will do several compilation passes: LaTeX, BibTeX, then two more
LaTeX. This is usually enough to generate the desired output, but should
you need to alter this, these are basically hardcoded into the output
rule, so you can change it there. (This could probably be done a lot
better, but this way is much easier!)
slide EnvironmentA new environment is defined which creates a new frame with a title under a subsubsection of the same name. The purpose of this is to correctly generate the breadcrumbs used by the Beamer theme.
For example:
in{slide}[My Slide]
llo, World!
{slide}
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