This repository contains a LaTeX template for academic presentations. The template carefully follows typographical best practices and has a minimalist design.
The template's documentation is available at https://pascalmichaillat.org/d1/.
- The font for text, roman math, and numbers is Source Sans Pro.
- The font for Greek and calligraphic math is Euler.
- No colors are used in the text (only black/gray) to reduce distraction.
- Colors are reserved for graphs and alerts.
- Margins, spacing, and font size are set for comfortable reading.
- There are no frills at the periphery of the slides.
- Clone the repository to your local machine.
- Start editing the LaTeX file
presentation.texto replace the boilerplate content with the content of your presentation. - Replace the figures in the PDF file
figures.pdfwith the figures that will be included in the presentation. There should be one figure per page. - Compile
presentation.texwith pdfTeX. This will generate a new PDF file namedpresentation.pdf. - The LaTeX style file
presentation.stycollects all the commands to format the presentation. The file must be included in the same folder aspresentation.tex. It can be modified to alter the presentation's format. - The file
presentation.pdfis not required to use the template. It only illustrate the output of the template, and will be overridden oncepresentation.texis compiled.
The template was developed on a Mac running macOS Ventura 13.2 with the MacTeX-2021 distribution. Hopefully, it should also work on other machines and with more recent distributions.
The content of this repository is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.
- LaTeX template for academic papers – This template produces academic papers following the same principles, and with a similar appearance, as this presentation template.
- LaTeX commands to write math – These commands make it easy to write mathematical expressions. They can be used in combination with this paper template.