Torino, a pretty theme for LaTeX Beamer


Beamer is a LaTeX class that allows you to easily create presentations. It contains several themes, but they are a bit ugly, so I wrote a new theme (named Torino) that I’m going to use for the slides for my graduation dissertation.

The look of the theme is based on a layout by Novell/SUSE and the nouvelle color theme uses the same colors of that one. There are other two color themes: chameleon, similar to nouvelle but green only, and freewilly, a blue theme that should look good even with crappy projectors.

The theme accepts some options that allow you to change the logo, the watermark, bullet lists, etc.

  
Chameleon

  
Nouvelle

  
Freewilly

A big thank you to Alessandro Finamore who helped me with the realization of the theme.

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September 18th, 2007
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Written by:
bersace
Posted on:
September 18, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Wow ! This looks very nice ! Congrats !

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Written by:
Fasa
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September 18, 2007 at 3:34 pm

Bravi! Bel lavoro, mi piacciono, molto minimalist! ;-)

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Written by:
rudy
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September 18, 2007 at 3:58 pm

Great. This is also something we need more of in distribution packages. A library of styles (that actually look good) is very valuable. Even Impress doesn’t have that. I hope some distribution (like debian) picks this up.

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Written by:
Rob
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September 18, 2007 at 5:48 pm

This looks great, but the Poli logo does not fit very well on the first slide. On the other slides it looks great as it fades out.

On the first slide I just would do something similar and maybe put the name “Politecnico di Torino” written in the same font (bigger) next to your name. Or leave he logo where it is but choose another color instead of black

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Written by:
Germán Poó-Caamaño
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September 18, 2007 at 6:08 pm

Good job.

IMVHO, a LICENSE file would be clear for its use (beside the licence header in each file).

OTOH, you could try in you hgweb.config something like:

[web]
style = gitweb

I think gitweb looks nicer than mercurial’s default theme.

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Written by:
Noufal Ibrahim
Posted on:
September 18, 2007 at 7:24 pm

Lovely theme. I’ve just recently started using LaTeX beamer (2 days ago in fact) and liked it a lot.

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Written by:
Guido
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September 19, 2007 at 9:43 am

Cool theme.. I got cold and I’m writing from bed.. uiua uiua la nerdocrasia

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Written by:
Stefano Costa
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September 19, 2007 at 10:57 am

Great! Some months ago I tried to clone exactly THAT Novell presentation theme with beamer, but ended up with nothing more than crap. You did it, thanks!
Beamer rocks!

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Stefano Costa
Posted on:
September 20, 2007 at 12:33 pm

It would be also great if colors could be chosen in the theme options, perhaps using Tango colors: http://www.pletscher.org/latex/slides/customizations.php

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Written by:
Juanjo Amor
Posted on:
September 20, 2007 at 3:14 pm

I use beamer frequently … but your template does not compile in my laptop :(

The log:

(./beamerthemeTorino.sty (./beamerinnerthemefancy.sty)
(./beamerouterthemedecolines.sty
! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted).

p
l.65 …erorig}{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight}

?

I use standard packages provided with Ubuntu 7.04. Any suggestion? Thanks!

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Lu
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May 19, 2010 at 10:27 pm

I’m using MikTeX 2.8 and I get the same error as Juanjo Amor. (! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). l.65 …erorig}{\beamer@decolines@watermarkheight})
Too bad! I would love to use the theme. It’s so pretty!!!
Any suggestions??
(I don’t know if anyone will actually read this comment, it seems kind of quiet here …)

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Written by:
fmarmo
Posted on:
June 15, 2010 at 11:01 pm

Using PcTex and I have the same problem as the two above.

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Written by:
barisione
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July 29, 2010 at 10:25 am

It’s probably a bug in the LaTeX implementation, but I don’t know how to work it around.

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Written by:
Joe Ciras
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August 23, 2010 at 3:10 pm

I have a multiline title and there is no spaces between lines. How can you adjust the line spacing in the title?

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Written by:
barisione
Posted on:
September 6, 2010 at 7:35 pm

@Joe Ciras:
Sorry, I don’t know. Too long passed since I used LaTeX the last time.

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Written by:
Lu
Posted on:
October 13, 2010 at 4:21 pm

I figured out how to solve the problem with the illegal unit of measure. It’s really easy. You just have to change every instance of px to pt *before you compile anything*. Then it works fine. Yay! I finally get to use this really pretty theme!!!

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Written by:
Alejo
Posted on:
October 18, 2010 at 3:41 pm

The theme is very nice, but the equations dont look good. how I can write the equations in other font i.e. sansserif without modify the rest of theme?

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Written by:
Luis
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October 20, 2010 at 10:08 pm

To fix the error, just change the “px” by “pt” in lines 22 and 103 of the file beamerouterthemedecolines.sty . This will make the theme usable with xetex!

By the way… nice theme, I love it and I used it many times.

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November 3, 2010 at 4:48 pm

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April 4, 2011 at 3:02 pm

[...] Habe noch zwei hübsche Themes gefunden, die sich nachinstallieren lassen: AAU Beamer Theme und Torino.Titelseite und Inhaltsverzeichnisframe{titlepage} % Titelseite   frame{ % [...]

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