This is a LaTeX class for creating scientific presentations in the corporate design of the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST). It's style was adapted by Lukas from the WeST - Presentation Template - 2015-07-17.potx powerpoint template. It is implemented as a theme for LaTeX poster class beamer, so you should probably have a look at its manual.

Packages

sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-bibtex-extra biber

Or simply install vanilla TeXLive (recommended).

Usage

Have a look at the slides.tex or slides_wide.tex file for how to use this class.

The code can be build using pdfLaTeX or luaLaTeX, for instance

pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides.tex
biber slides
pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides.tex

or

pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides_wide.tex
biber slides
pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides_wide.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape -file-line-error -halt-on-error slides_wide.tex

Changelog

• 2018-12-12

Now also supports pdfLaTeX (default).

• 2020-03-19

Now it passes options to the base class beamer. For instance use aspectratio=169 to set the ratio to 16:9.

TODOs

Bugs:

• Have better example content.
• Fonts are not exactly the same when compiled with different engines.

Additional Features:

• Support Beamer's Handout feature.