[ale] Beamer templates

[George Allen]

The goal was to get to latex - not just away from powerpoint. And
libreoffice and ppt weren't exactly cooperative with each other
regarding the template either. They kept reflowing the content
differently and I didn't want to mess with adjusting everything twice.
I ended up doing the slides in powerpoint so I could turn them in last
night.

For the next version of this slide-deck I'll fix the theme and do it
in LaTeX.... it'll be much easier to update and fix later.

But - I did figure out what I was looking for regarding the beamerinnertheme:

\setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=white,bg=ssp-green}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=6ex,dp=4ex,right]{headline}
  \usebeamerfont{headline}\large\insertframenumber\hspace*{0.25in}
\end{beamercolorbox}}%

Basically - how to put colors and page numbers into the template with
positioning. I've been using koma script and a few other things for
years, but am just starting to play with beamer under-the-hood.
There's a great walk-through here:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/146529/design-a-custom-beamer-theme-from-scratch.



On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> Why not use libreoffice to do the slides? It's not LaTeX, but it's not PowerPoint, either.
>
> When I turned in assignments digitally, I would always send in PDF, ODT, and DOC. Sometimes I used LaTeX for it (most of the time when I was writing things that had to be formatted "properly") or Writer for smaller stuff.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 28, 2015, at 12:08 PM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with LaTeX and Beamer? I'm writing a 8h class on Linux security, (based on the CIS guide and STIG) but they'll only accept the slides of they match their powerpoint templates. Naturally, I'd rather not use PowerPoint... At the least it doesn't support Pygments. :)
>>
>> I've matched their colors, I think I can figure out the fonts, but the tikz bits to do positioning are beyond me with the time I have left...
>>
>>
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