Page Layout ⇒ Beamer: Custom Beamer Theme

[pooz]

Hi,

I can use without any problems a custom beamer theme by installing the beamerthememyfile.sty in the same directory as the .tex-file and invoke it successfully by:

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% preamble
\usetheme{myfile}

But I really wouldlike to put this .sty-file(s) in a subfolder.
But how can I point to this subfolder for the themes?

Thank you very much!
cheers

[pooz]

Does anyone have an Idea, how to move a themefile in another directory than the .tex-file resides in?

Thanks!

[frabjous]

What operating system and latex distribution are you using?

[pooz]

Mac OS X 10.6.4 and TeXLive-2009

[frabjous]

This is just a guess, since I'm not a mac user, but try this.

In a terminal type:

tlmgr conf | grep "TEXMFHOME"

It should show you where your local (personal) tex tree is located, or should be located. For me (on linux), it gives:

TEXMFHOME=/home/username/texmf

Mac probably uses "Users" rather than "home", etc., and your actual username rather than "username", etc.

Navigate to that directory (create it if need be):

cd /home/username/texmf
(or whatever)

See if there's a subfolder tex (if not, create it), and then a subfolder of it, latex, then a subfolder of it, beamer, and them a subfolder of it, themes. So the final folder might be something like:

/home/username/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/

Put your .sty file in there, and then run texhash afterwards. (On linux, you need to run "sudo texhash" to run as superuser, but I don't know what the equivalent is on Mac, if any.) I hope that would work. You'll have to try it and let us know.

[pooz]

Thank you,

your solution works:
I just copied my theme in the folder

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~/Library/texmf/tex/latex

and LaTeX found it automatically.

But now the theme is located in a system folder of my system. The Idea behind my request was, to put the theme in a kind of a Latex-Project folder, like:

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MyLatexFiles\Themes\theme.sty
MyLatexFiles\Paper
MyLatexFiles\Paper2
...

so that all tex files of my Papers access the Themes-Folder and I can copy/backup the "MyLatexFiles" and am on the save side, that I have saved all files, which are needed

[frabjous]

I haven't tried, but have you tried:

\usetheme{Themes/themename}?

or maybe:

\usepackage{Themes/themename}

?

Well, maybe I'll try it just for the heck of it. I'll report back.

REPORT: Yeah, the latter option seems to work, at least for me. \usetheme{..} is basically the same as \usepackage{beamertheme..}, so you can achieve the same effect with \usepackage{Foldername/beamerthemeName} where the .sty file for the theme is beamerthemeName.sty.

[pooz]

Thank you, frabjous,

Now I encounter the problem, that other files, which are needed by the theme file, won´t be found, e.g.

\usepackage{ThemeFolder/beamerthemename}

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LaTeX Warning: You have requested package `ThemeFolder/beamerthemename',
! LaTeX Error: File `beamerouterthemename.sty' not found.

Any idea?
Thanks for your help.