LaTeX Template for Presentations

This package serves as a template for presentations in the Corporate Design of KIT (version from February 2025).

It is modified from the template developed by the research group DSiS at the KIT Faculty of Computer Science and is based on LaTeX Beamer. See https://sdq.kastel.kit.edu/wiki/Dokumentvorlagen

Modified by: [Dr.-Ing. Hedongliang Liu]

Compile the introduction.tex to see an example.

Usage

Options for the "CELbeamer" document class

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The font size in the footer is set larger by default than in the PowerPoint template. This can be enforced to match the original specification using the smallfoot option.

Footer font size	Option
slightly larger (12pt)	bigfoot (default)
KIT specification (11pt)	smallfoot

German and English are available as languages. The language selection automatically sets the appropriate formats (e.g., quotation marks, date).

Language	Option
German	de
English	en (default)

Slide titles are set in Helvetica. If you want Franklin Gothic for everything, you can define this.

Title font	Option
Franklin Gothic	franklin
Helvetica	helvet (default)

Other options

• The navigation bar in the footer can be enabled using the navbaron option.

• With the kitgrid option, the grid of the slides can be displayed.

• The handout option turns off the animations. Multiple slides for the same frame will be shown on one slide, or according to the commands in the animation instructions. E.g., \only<2|handout:0>{This is not shown in handout mode.}, \item<1-|handout:2>{This shows only on the second slide of the frame in the handout mode.}

• The spaceforface option leaves extra space on the right-hand-side of the frame to put presenter's video. The width of the space can be adjusted by changing the in \setlength{\spaceforface}{} in CELbeamer.cls.

• The overviewatsection option displays the table of contents at each section. Only subsections of the current section is shown.

• The showsubsectionsatfirstoverview option shows all the subsections at the first overview. This requires overviewatsection option.

Example: \documentclass[de, navbaron, kitgrid, handout, overviewatsection]{CELbeamer}

Title Slide

Setup: \begin{frame}[title white vertical, picture=images/...., fundings=]

The image on the title slide can be set with the picture= option. For vertical layouts, the image fits the height; for horizontal layouts, it fits the width.

Additionally, for horizontal layouts, you can choose the color of the KIT logo.

KIT logo color	Frame Option
colored	kitlogo=rgb
white	kitlogo=white
black	kitlogo=black

Example: \begin{frame}[title white horizontal, picture=images/palladio_bauplan, kitlogo=black]

Special Slides

Table of content

For tables of contents, you can specify the option tableofcontents=<color>, where color can be either blue or green. The table of contents will then be shown on a fully colored slide.

Image slides

There are also special layouts for divider slides with large images. You can select them using frame options.

Vertical image share:	Frame Option
33%	picture 33 vertical
50%	picture 50 vertical
66%	picture 66 vertical
arbitrary	picture vertical=<value in %>

The image is set with the option picture=<path>, where path must be given relative to the main document.

Logo and Name of Department/KIT Faculty/Institute

The logo at the bottom right of the title slide can be set with the following command:

\grouplogo{mylogo} (without file extension)

To use your own logo, place the file (e.g., mylogo.pdf) in the logos/ directory and adjust the command. If no logo should be included, use \grouplogo{}.

The group name can be set with the following command:

\groupname{Communication Engineering Lab}

The group name appears in the footer at the bottom right. Long names will be wrapped into two lines. If the group name is left empty (\groupname{}), the full width of the footer will be used for author names and title.

The default width of the group name is 89 mm. It can be changed with

\groupnamewidth{120mm}

which also adjusts the width of the author and title text field accordingly. Line breaks are possible with \\. Instead of two-line footers, the smallfoot option may be preferable.

General LaTeX

See https://sdq.kastel.kit.edu/wiki/LaTeX

Directory Structure

presentation.tex

Main file of the LaTeX document.

presentation.bib

Sample file for BibTeX references
https://sdq.kastel.kit.edu/wiki/BibTeX-Literaturlisten

CELbeamer.cls

Document class for CEL presentations in KIT design.

preambles/packages.tex

A TeX file to load all the necessary packages. Current version inherient from the old (before 2025) CEL beamer template.

preambles/macros.tex

A TeX file containing some commonly used macros. introduction.tex includes examples of some predefiend macros.

logos/

This directory contains the KIT, CEL, and funding logos in various color variants as PDF.

images/

This directory contains the background image for the title slide as JPG.

CHANGELOG.md

Documentation of changes in each version.

README.md

This file.