Queen's Presentation LaTeX (Beamer) Class and Template
This is a LaTeX template for presentation slides styled to roughly follow the fonts and styling described in the Queen's University Visual Identity guide.
Dependencies
The template is based on the Berkeley theme of the Beamer package. The class also uses a bunch of other packages (most are standard), listed here:
- beamer (for the presentation slides package)
- mathpazo (for Palatino math font)
- fontspec (for system font stuff)
- color (for colours)
- fancyvrb (for nice verbatim style; e.g., for code)
- amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb (for nice math)
- hyperref (for hyperlinking)
- xunicode (for using unicode characters)
- url (for URLs)
- fancyhdr
- Cite or natbib (for bibliography)
Queen's Fonts
To match the Queen's visual identity, you need a couple of fonts installed on your system.
- Palatino (Queen's main font)
- Myriad Pro (an Adobe font, used by Queen's)
- Menlo (not officially for Queen's, but looks better than Courier for monospaced text; e.g., code) % Note! Does not work on Windows!
Font files are in the fonts
folder and specified in Preamble.tex. If you don't have them already, install them on your system before attempting to compile. If you need help, see documentation related to the fontspec package.
To use the Queen's fonts, the document needs to be compiled with XeLatex using fontspec package. If you use a Mac and TeXShop, the comments at the start of the template will do this automatically for you.
If you want to use the Menlo font, uncomment "\setmonofont[Mapping=tex-text,Scale=0.85]{Menlo}" in Preamble.tex
Customizing the Presentation
Aspect Ratio
The default is set to an aspect ratio of 16:9 (wide format). You can return it to standard 4:3 aspect ratio by removing the option aspectratio=169
in the qslides.cls
file.
Colour Scheme
The class has three options, which allow you to choose the colour theme. Choose one of tricolour, red, or blue when you call the class in your document.