This is a Beamer template set up to look pretty decent and have a University of Wisconsin theme. It is, of course, better than the existing Powerpoint templates. The easiest way to install this theme is to just dump the *.sty files into the same directory as your tex source. A minimal Beamer presentation using this template looks something like the following: \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme{Wisconsin} \begin{document} %% Slides \end{document} The theme currently has two options: * nav - This option includes a navigation bar in the lower-right corner of each slide * white - This option changes the color scheme to black-on-white for projectors with poor color balance * nologo - Suppress the crest in frame titles * compactlogo - Compact title logo (takes less vertical space) Options are specified as: \usetheme[white]{Wisconsin} Other suggested packages: * tikz (pgf, for diagrams) * listings (for source code listings) * fontspec (if using xetex) Author: Tristan Ravitch (travitch@cs.wisc.edu) Initial Release: June 2009 Public Domain Extra ----- Here is a very handy snippet of TeX to stick at the beginning of your presentation (after \begin{document}): \newcommand*{\alphabet}{ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz} \newlength{\highlightheight} \newlength{\highlightdepth} \newlength{\highlightmargin} \setlength{\highlightmargin}{2pt} \settoheight{\highlightheight}{\alphabet} \settodepth{\highlightdepth}{\alphabet} \addtolength{\highlightheight}{\highlightmargin} \addtolength{\highlightdepth}{\highlightmargin} \addtolength{\highlightheight}{\highlightdepth} \newcommand*{\Highlight}{\rlap{\textcolor{HighlightBackground}{\rule[-\highlightdepth]{\linewidth}{\highlightheight}}}} HighlightBackground is defined by the Wisconsin theme. This snippet allows you to include source code listings in the following way: \lstinputlisting[language=C,moredelim={**[il][\Highlight]{@}}]{file.c} Note the moredelim option; with this option and the preceeding declarations, prefixing a line in file.c will highlight the line.