Slide Template for the University of Ulm

About

This is a beamer latex template for slides and lectures at University of Ulm.

The template has been discontinued and replace by a customized version of a university-agnostic template: https://github.com/sp-uulm/FancyBeamerUULM

How to Use

Creating a Presentation

First, you need to create a new beamer presentation. For that, add \documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer} to your .tex-file (and change the aspectratio)

Including the Theme

The beamer theme can be used for a beamer presentation by the command \usetheme{uulm}.

Empty Slides Template

You can easily start creating slides by using a copy of the empty-slides.tex template file.

Creating a Symbolic Link

To use the template from another directory, you can create a symbolic link to the directory of the cloned template. The terminal-commands to create such links vary between different operating systems:

• Windows: mklink /J \path\to\slides\template path\to\template
• Linux/macOS: ln -s /path/to/template /path/to/slides/template

Functionality of the Theme

Title Page

To add a title frame, you can use the standard \maketitle command. It creates a title Frame with a default picture and the information that is set by the following commands:

• \title[<optional short title>]{<title>}
• \subtitle[<optional short subtitle>]{<subtitle>}
• \author[<optional short author>]{<long author>}
• \date{<date>}

The title picture can be changed with an optional parameter: \maketitle[<path-to-picture>]. The picture's width will automatically be set to fill the frame. To move the picture up or down you can pass an additional optional parameter to set an offset: \maketitle[<path-to-picture>][<offset>].

If no picture is given (\maketitle), a default picture is used. To create a title frame without a picture, you can use \maketitle[].

To repeat the title slide you can use the command \againtitle at any point. It creates a copy of the last title slide with the same picture and picture-offset.

Content Overview

A slide that shows a clickable multi-column table of contents (including the sections and subsections of the document) can be generated using the command \contentoverview.

Section Frames

At the begin of each section a title slide is automatically generated. If you are in handout-mode, this slide also includes an overview of all sections and subsections that can be used to navigate through the slides easily.

You can overwrite this behaviour by using one of the following documentclass-options:

• nosectionframes: no automatic frames at the begin of each section
• sectiontitleslides: automatic title frames at the begin of each section
• sectionoverviews: automatic section overviews at the begin of each section

Faculty Colors

The color-scheme of the template can be adapted to each faculty of Ulm University with the command \setfaculty{<faculty>}. It can take the following values:

• infIngPsy: "Informatik, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Psychologie"
• med: "Medizin"
• math: "Mathematik"
• nat: "Naturwissenschaften"

Setting the Logos

The title slide contains a university (bottom right) and an institute (bottom left) logo. By default, the university logo is the logo of Ulm University and the institute logo is empty.

Your can set the logos yourself using the commands \universitylogo{<image-file>} and \institutelogo{<image-file>}. The commands \clearuniversitylogo and \clearinstitutelogo can be used to remove the logos.

You can also freely configure as many logos as you want using the command \uulmlogos{<list-of-logos>} (with the logos separated by commas).

Slide Layout

You can use the the mycolumns environment to layout your slides (it is safe to use with verbatim, but still requires the beamer fragile-option for the frame ). Within, the \mynextcolumn can be used to separate columns, various options allow you to customize the appearance:

\begin{mycolumns}[columns=3, t]
   Content of Column 1
\mynextcolumn
   Content of Column 2
\mynextcolumn
   Content of Column 3
\end{mycolumns}

In total, there are the following options:

Option	Default	Description
c	yes	Will center the content of the columns vertically
t	no	Will vertically align based on the baseline of the first line of each column
b	no	Will vertically align based on the baseline of the last line of each column
T	no	Similar to t but will use the very top of the first line (good for images, ...).
width=<width>	\linewidth	The total width of all columns (including margins)
height=<width>	no height	The artificial height of the columns environment (e.g. for animations with different heights).
no height		Counterpart of height =<width> makes the layout use the natural height again.
margin=<width>	0.035\linewidth	The horizontal space between columns.
columns=<amount>	2	The number of columns
widths={<widths>}	{}	A comma-separated list of values, which determine how wide the columns should be. For example, using columns=4, widths={40,30} will cause the first column to occupy 40% of the width, the next one 30%, and evenly distribute the remaining 30% among the other two columns (equivalent to columns=4, widths={40,30,15,15}).
animation=none	yes	Similar to the "and" mode of the old layouts. Will make all slides visible by default, without any animation (should not be combined with reverse).
keep or animation=keep	no	Similar to the "then" mode of the old layouts. This will cause the columns to be animated one after the other, with previous columns remaining visible.
forget or animation=forget	no	Similar to the "or" mode of the old layouts. This will cause the columns to be animated one after the other, with previous columns disappearing again. This behavior is active only in recording mode (\recordingtrue), otherwise, this is similar to animation=keep.
reverse	no	With the default animation order being left-to-right, this makes it right-to-left.
extra/columns=<value>	{}	Only for people who know, what they are doing. This allows direct, overwriting access on the beamer-columns mechanism working behind the scenes.

Some of these defaults may appear arbitrary. They can be changed (locally to the current group) with the macro \setmycolumnsdefault (accumulative):

\setmycolumnsdefault{margin=7mm,t}

Unique Slide-Numbering

With the package option uniqueslidenumber you can ensure that even frames with overlays get a unique slide number at the bottom right. For this, this option adds a suffix to the slide number (<slide>.<overlay>) of slides with animations, so the slides can be uniquely identified.

Old Macros

Please note that, all of the macros in this section are deprecated (for not being verbatim-safe). Please use the mycolumns-mechanism described above.

The following layouts can be used to arrange content into multiple columns on a frame. Some of them are also animated.

• \leftandright{<left>}{<right>}, \leftmiddleandright{<left>}{<middle>}{<right>}
  Splits the frame into multiple columns, which contain the content given by the multiple arguments.
• \leftthenright{<left>}{<right>}, \leftmiddlethenright{<left>}{<middle>}{<right>}
  Splits the frame into multiple columns, which contain the content given by the multiple arguments and are displayed column by column with the previous columns remaining on the slide (only if not in handout-mode).
• \leftorright{<left>}{<right>}, \leftmiddleorright{<left>}{<middle>}{<right>}
  Splits the frame into multiple columns, which contain the content given by the multiple arguments and are displayed column by column individually with a blank frame in between (only if not in handout-mode).
  Hint: This only works if the recording mode is enabled via \recordingtrue, otherwise it will act the same as \leftthenright or \leftmiddlethenright.

Color Boxes

The following colorboxes can be used for writing definitions, examples and notes:

\begin{definition}{<Title>}
   <Content>
\end{definition}

\begin{example}{<Title>}
   <Content>
\end{example}

\begin{note}{<Title>}
   <Content>
\end{note}

Custom Color Boxes

You can also create own colorbox-environments with \MakeNewBox{<box-name>}{<box-color>} or modify existing ones using \UpdateBoxColor{<box-name>}{<new-box-color>}.

Counting Color Boxes

The prefix and suffix of a box title can be updated using \UpdateBoxPrefix{<new-prefix>} and \UpdateBoxSuffix{<new-suffix>}. To create a counting box, \boxnumber can be used in the definition of the prefix or suffix.

You can also directly add a prefix and suffix to the box title at creation using additional options: \MakeNewBox[<prefix>]{<box-name>}{<box-color>}[<suffix>]

Old Macros

Please note that, all of the macros in this section are deprecated (for not being verbatim-safe). Please use the definition, example and note environments described above.

• \mydefinition{<title>}{<content>}
• \myexample{<title>}{<content>}
• \mynote{<title>}{<content>}

Dark Mode

For easier viewing and editing slides in dark environments, the template features a dark mode that can be enabled with the documentclass-option darkmode.

Including Pictures

Pictures can be included using the \pic{<path>}-command. This command also enables creating automatic links on the pictures (e.g. for sources). Therefore, the link simply has to be stored in a .txt-file with the same filename.

Automatic Dark Mode for Pictures

Similar to the \pic command described above, \picDark{<path>} can be used to include pictures that get inverted automatically when the dark mode is used. Therefore, white gets converted to a dark gray that matches the dark background color of the slides.

Alternatively, a separate dark version of the picture can be stored with the suffix -dark to get automatically used instead of the normal version when dark mode is enabled.

Other Functionalities

• Easy Navigation in Slides: A click on the title or subtitle in the slide footer leads to a jump to the title slide. A click on the section title brings you to the begin of the section.
• Auto-Scaling: Frame titles that are longer than the width of the frame are scaled down automatically. This can avoid annoying linebreaks for a single character or word.
• Recording mode: This theme comes with a optional recording mode. In this mode, the animations for the content layouts \leftorright and \leftmiddleorright are different. Each column that is generated by those layouts is displayed individually one after another with a blank slide in between. That way, the presenter can walk over to the other side of the frame if recording in front of the slides.
  The recording mode can be enabled using the command \recordingtrue.
• Using Lectures: Standard LaTeX \lectures can also be used with the template. lecture-demo contains an example for how to use them.