My LaTeX Beamer Template

If you want to know what the template looks like, please look at sample.pdf.

Requirements

Compiler:

(|p|up)LaTeX or LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX

Packages:

beamer
calc

Usage

See the sample slides.tex.

Building sample slides

Here, we describe various ways to compile the slides.tex included in the repository.

Please note that -shell-escape flag is specified in the following examples because minted package is used in the sample slides. You can omit the flag if you do not use such a package.

In addition, you need to add 'dvipdfmx' class option when using LaTeX engine other than lualatex or xelatex.

Simple way

latex -shell-escape slides && dvipdfmx slides
lualatex -shell-escape slides
xelatex -shell-escape slides

With latexmk

You can also compile the sample with latexmk:

latexmk -pdfdvi -latex='latex -shell-escape' slides
latexmk -pdflua -pdflualatex='lualatex -shell-escape' slides
latexmk -pdfxe -pdfxelatex='xelatex -shell-escape' slides

For continuous building, the following works:

latexmk -pvc -pdfdvi -latex='latex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -shell-escape' slides
latexmk -pvc -pdflua -pdflualatex='lualatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -shell-escape' slides
latexmk -pvc -pdfxe -pdfxelatex='xelatex -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -shell-escape' slides

With latexmk + provided latexmkrc

You can configure latexmk with latexmkrc file. The repository includes a sample latexmkrc.

For one-time compile:

latexmk -pdfdvi
latexmk -pdflua
latexmk -pdfxe

For continuous building:

latexmk -pvc -pdfdvi
latexmk -pvc -pdflua
latexmk -pvc -pdfxe

draft mode + continuous typesetting

latexmk -pvc -pdfdvi -pretex='\PassOptionsToClass{draft}{beamer}'
latexmk -pvc -pdflua -pretex='\PassOptionsToClass{draft}{beamer}'
latexmk -pvc -pdfxe -pretex='\PassOptionsToClass{draft}{beamer}'

Tips

You can specify different output name by passing a job name to latexmk. For instance, running the following command line would produces abc.pdf:

latexmk -jobname=abc -pdflua

latexmk recognizes some options which are passed to engines without processing by latexmk. Here is an example set of such flags:

latexmk -pdflua -interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -file-line-error -shell-escape -synctex=1

Or, you can specify options via $common_opts in latexmkrc:

$common_opts = '-interaction=nonstopmode -halt-on-error -file-line-error -shell-escape -synctex=1'

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