LSST beamer presentation template

The presentation template lets you create new beamer presentations using the LSST-beamer class.

See also

For background, see Creating new documents with templates.

For help with using the LSST-beamer class, see Writing Presentations.

Invoking the template

After you have set up cookiecutter and cloned the lsst-texmf repository, you can create a document by pointing cookiecutter at lsst-texmf’s templates/presentation directory. For example, from a directory containing a lsst-texmf clone:

cookiecutter lsst-texmf/templates/presentation

Cookiecutter will prompt you to configure your document.

Template configurations

This section describes configurations requested by cookiecutter.

title

The presentation’s title (used in the README and the \title command).

short_title

A shortened title that appears in the footer of slides.

slug

A string that determines the presentation’s directory and file name. Being a file name, the slug should contain no white space, /, or other characters not valid in file names.

presenter

Name of the presenter (formatted “First Last”).

presenter_role

Position of the presenter in the organization (such as “Manager” or “Software Developer”).

presenter_institution

Presenter’s home institution (such as “AURA/LSST” or “University of Washington”).

date

Date of the presentation, following ISO 8601 formatting: YYYY-MM-DD.

venue

Institution or event where the presentation is being given.

copyright_year

Year when copyright is first claimed.

copyright_hold

Institution that holds the presentation’s copyright.

license_cc_by

If true, a Creative Commons Attribution license is added to the README.