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RMarkdown Templates for UIUC Theme-Oriented Documents
https://illinois-r.github.io/uiucthemes/
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Have a Latex package of the theme #25

Closed NCryme closed 1 year ago

NCryme commented 1 year ago

Markdown is nice but if one wants to write everything in Latex (for instance to benefit from TikZ or other packages, or simply because they'd rather not use markdown) it would be easier if there were a purely Latex package. I am quite clueless about how you implemented the theme in R and markdown, but if it uses Latex as a backbone anyway, should there not be a readily available .sty file to it?

cmainov commented 1 year ago

I agree. I searched the repository for any .sty file that could be implemented in LaTeX but came up with nothing. I would like to implement this outside of R Markdown as well using my TeX editor. Any help is appreciated.

coatless commented 1 year ago

Thanks for the issue. Sorry I didn't see it sooner.

I spend the majority of my day inside of R or Python. So, I'm not as interested in creating, publishing, and maintaining a separate theming package on CTAN since this solution has worked well for the last 6-8 years. Moreover, there is nothing restricting the use of TiKZ code within the existing template. In fact, I would argue it simplifies the markup required for each slide.

That said, I can understand wanting a pure native approach. So, a few quick details:

  1. There isn't a .sty powering beamer_illinois as the theme re-purposes the existing AnnArbor theme.
  2. The modifications can be found inside of the .tex file that is automatically placed alongside each .Rmd document

You can view the .tex file here:

https://github.com/illinois-r/uiucthemes/blob/fcff820a90e44917ed184f97314eb3069024792b/inst/rmarkdown/templates/beamer_illinois/resources/template.tex#L71-L96

cmainov commented 1 year ago

Thank you for pointing me to this file. It seems you are correct and it is easy to modify the existing AnnArbor theme with the code chunk you highlight from that .tex file.