latex-beamer-grid-layout

Grid layout system to more easily create presentations in LaTeX, also includes Secure Code Warrior Branding

Usage

Load style into your project

\usepackage{grid}

The style loads in Secure Code Warrior colors:

• scw-blue-black
• scw-charcoal
• scw-orange
• scw-yellow
• scw-white
• scw-ivory
• scw-red
• scw-sky
• scw-teal

The grid layout is made with a tikzpicture. Enable help lines with \HelpLinestrue.

Add things to your slides with the following commands:

\PlaceAt takes 3 arguments and is essentially a wrapper for a \node

1. coordinates in percentages of \paperwidth and \paperheight in ()
2. (Optional) arguments to the \node in the tikzpicture in [] (for example right to place the text on the right of the chose coordinates instead of centered on them)
3. The contents of the node in {}

\AddToPlaced is a wrapper to place anything other than \node to the tikzpicture

Example

\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{grid}
\def\MyAuthor{Pieter De Cremer}
\def\MyTitle{Intelligent Tutoring System}

\begin{document}
%% TITLE
\begin{frame}
  \PlaceAt(.5,.6)[]{\textcolor{scw-orange}{\Huge \MyTitle}}
  \PlaceAt(.5,.5)[]{\large \MyAuthor}
  \PlaceAt(0.2,0.2){\includegraphics[width=.2\paperwidth]{logos/SCW_logo_primary_RGB_300ppi.png}}
  \PlaceAt(0.8,0.2){\includegraphics[width=.2\paperwidth]{logos/logo_UGent_EN_RGB_2400_color.png}}
\end{frame}

\HelpLinestrue
{
\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=scw-sky}
\begin{frame}{\MyTitle}
  \PlaceAt(.3,.65)[right]{\Large \textcolor{scw-blue-black}{First item}}
  \PlaceAt(.3,.5)[right] {\Large \textcolor{scw-teal}{Second item}}
  \PlaceAt(.3,.35)[right]{\Large \textcolor{scw-teal}{Third item}}

  % some arrow for fun
  \AddToPlaced{\draw[->] (.9\paperwidth,.1\paperheight) -- (.6\paperwidth,.5\paperheight);}
\end{frame}
}

\begin{frame}{The first parameter in the Rasch model\\ is the difficulty parameter}
  \PlaceAt(.02,.53)[right]{\small Probability correct answer}
  \PlaceAt(.7,.17){\small User ability}

  \PlaceAt(.4,.5)[right]{
    \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.9]
    \input{plots/1pl}
    \end{tikzpicture}
  }
\end{frame}

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