Unofficial University of Manchester Beamer Theme

Provides a (very nice looking) Beamer theme that matches the official University of Manchester PowerPoint Style.

"University of Manchester" and associated logos are copyright of the University of Manchester -- please see http://www.brand.manchester.ac.uk

Installation

A beginner's introduction, and complete install guide may be found here

To use the theme, ensure the following files are copied into somewhere like: ~/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes or /usr/share/texmf/...

• beamercolorthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
• beamerfontthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
• beamerinnerthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
• beamerouterthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
• beamerthemeUniversityOfManchester.sty
• TAB_allwhite.pdf
• TAB_col_white_background.pdf

Then run texhash as yourself.

Font Installation

If you want to use the Cabin font (see below), you'll either need a recent TeXlive release, or will have to install it from CTAN:

• Cabin itself, http://www.ctan.org/pkg/cabin
• AND ifluatex, http://www.ctan.org/pkg/ifluatex

Not for the faint hearted!

Usage

Once installed, you can use the theme as:

\documentclass[t]{beamer}
\usetheme[..options..]{UniversityOfManchester}

Options

• dark
• darktitle
• cabin [Replaces the default font with Cabin, much nicer!]
• framenumber
• totalframenumber [Only works if framenumber is also set!]
• compress [Reduces the logo padding by half, this is a Bad Thing™]

You can also use plain on a slide to hide the logo and gain some extra space.

The following colours are defined for your use:

• uompurple
• uomyellow
• uomgrey

A Fun Note

Older versions of Beamer require you to put

\begin{frame}
	\frametitle{...title...}
	% ...
\end{frame}

Instead of the (much nicer) \begin{frame}{...title...} - be aware of this!

License

Based partially upon http://nschloe.blogspot.de/2009/04/ua-beamer-theme_15.html, This file may be distributed and/or modified

1. under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
2. under the GNU Public License.

To Do:

• Frame option to make a selected frame dark (for, e.g., overview/content slides)