NCSU Beamer Style

The Beamer LaTeX class allows one to produce PowerPoint-like slides using LaTeX mathematics facilities. The slides produced allow successive uncovering of lines, automatic production of talk outlines that appear with the current section highlighted, etc.

I did a minimal amount of work to make the NCSU Beamer style provided below, and expect more needs to be done to have it work properly with some of the variants of formatting Beamer provides. If anyone has an undergraduate looking for a useful task, this might be a possibility.

• The following are the two new Beamer theme files, which can be used in addition to the many standard Beamer themes.
  • The NCSU Beamer style theme: beamerthemeNCSU.sty. This is based on one of the standard Beamers styles in which a running head at the top of the slide shows the section and subsection names of the current material. It also provides a footer with the NCSU logo and a small author identification and date section.
  • The NCSU Wolfpack Beamer color theme: beamercolorthemewolf.sty. This provides the standard red-and-white logo coloration, along with a medium-to-light blue headline. This basic style only uses white, red, blue, and black as colors, which should give no trouble to people (like me) with the most common sort of red-green colorblindness. You can still use any coloration you wish in text blocks and text itself.
  Place them either in the directory in which your presentation .tex file is stored, or in the LaTeX installation tree. In my MikTeX PC installation, these are placed in, respectively,
  • c:/localtexmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/theme
  • c:/localtexmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/color
• The LaTeX Beamer class website on Sourceforge
• The long, detailed, and example-filled Beamer user guide
• A set of files I used to produce one of the lectures for CSC 503. These are not perfectly organized, but at least exhibit the use of the style and its results. I did not make use of the PowerPoint-like uncovering features in this presentation. See the user manual for such examples.
  • 02propositional.tex: the main slide source
    • 02propositional.dvi
    • 02propositional.pdf
  • setup.tex: sets up the title information common to all presentations in the course. This isn't part of the Beamer style, just part of what I use in this course presentation. In a normal stand-alone talk, much of this would appear in the basic presentation .tex file.
  • macros.tex: non-beamer macros used in the presentation