Disclaimer

The installation instructions below are somewhat outdated (I think). I will try and update this when/if I add my new MIT style:

IAS themes for Beamer

Beamer

Beamer is a latex package for preparing slides. It works with pdflatex. More information on beamer itself can be found at: http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/.

The IAS themes

I created some themes myself using IAS colors and showing the 'IAS' text in the left sidebar. Here are some samples:

Installation

Download and install the beamer package and the required packages (xcolor, pgf). You'll typically want to do this in: ~/texmf/tex/latex/
(if you put it in another place, you'll of course have to substite that in the following text...)

after installation, make tex find the files:

To use the IAS layouts there are 2 options. Perhaps the easiest is to download IASthemes.tar.gz and copy it to: ~/texmf/tex/latex/beamer. Then untar it, and let tex know about the files:

If texhash gives problem see below.

The other option is to copy IASthemes.tar.gz to some arbitrary directory (say ~/arbitrary) and link it to your texmf tree:

For Lyx users: make sure lyx can find the beamer layout file:

Start lyx, run reconfigure, restart lyx.

Usage

Beamer comes with plenty of example files, but here you can also find a sample files using the IAS templates: ias_templates.tex and (for Lyx) ias_templates_lyx.lyx. Both require a file 'uva_logo.jpg' to be in the working directory (or somewhere in your TEXINPUTS)

Download

• IASthemes.tar.gz
• ias_templates.tex
• ias_templates_lyx.lyx
• uva_logo.jpg

Alright, good luck!

If texhash gives problems...

If texhash gives problems - check if ~/texmf is known to tex. You should have something like this:

Otherwise you should update/set the correct environment variables in the file that is good for your system. Personally, I have the following in ~/.env.sh