Update EP Beamer theme to match official template #20
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The Microsoft PowerPoint template for Engineering for Professionals (EP) uses Tahoma as the typeface. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any metrically compatible typeface. Verdana was derived from Tahoma and is metrically compatible with Vera Sans (Arev and Bera Sans) and DejaVu Sans, but Clear Sans appears to be a closer match for Tahoma due to its different forms for uppercase 'I' and lowercase 'l' and slightly narrower width. Hence, this change uses Clear Sans as the typeface for the ep.jhu.edu presentation theme. References #17
Engineering for Professionals (EP) released an updated Microsoft PowerPoint template designed for online courses. This change updates the ep.jhu.edu Beamer presentation theme so it is consistent with that template. Closes #17
The dark background of the title page requires changing Beamer's foreground color after using the `title page' template. Unfortunately, there isn't really sufficient space to insert additional text on that frame so this change removes the existing workaround.
| \defbeamertemplate*{title page}{ep.jhu.edu}[1][]{% | ||
| % \end{macrocode} | ||
| % Suppress the headline, footline, and sidebars on the current frame by manually setting the corresponding key. | ||
| % This approach may not be generalizable (e.g., if the theme has a headline, then setting this key inside this template is likely too late to have the desired effect), but works well for the \textsf{default} outer theme that does not define a headline, footline, or left sidebar. |
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Because EPS images are converted to PDFs rather than being embedded directly in documents, `epstopdf` may not be able to find the images, such as when the images are found using the TEXINPUTS environment variable (e.g., when TEXINPUTS references a local texmf directory). This change patches epstopdf to use `kpsewhich` to find EPS images, which eliminates the need to place images used by the ep.jhu.edu Beamer presentation theme (e.g., logos) in the same directory as the LaTeX document.
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The title page and end page do not display correctly when using Beamer's |
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It would be ideal if the title page and end page used Beamer's background template although it isn't clear if that's possible because, at least for the title page, the background template cannot be specified before the start of the frame. |
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It would be ideal if the inclusion of the "end page" was configurable (and enabled by default). That would greatly simplify using the theme in situations where tweaks are required, such as ordering the |
Consider deferring the definition of templates until the beginning of the document so that configuration in the preamble (e.g., |
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Use different color for block title and labels of items in description environment -- as it is, the difference in font size isn't sufficient to indicate that they are different (i.e., the block title looks like it is an item label). |
Engineering for Professionals (EP) released an updated Microsoft
PowerPoint template designed for online courses. This change updates
the ep.jhu.edu Beamer presentation theme so it is consistent with that
template.
Closes #17