Document Classes ⇒ beamer | Looking into the Sources of a Theme

[wcw]

I am studying customizing the beamer theme and I want to look into the beamer theme source file for customizing my own theme. Can somebody tell me the approach to the theme file and how can i open the theme file?

[localghost]

All kind of themes are located in one folder inside the TeX installation tree which itself contains sub-folders for the different type of themes (color, font, …). On my Linux system this is the following path

Code: Select all

/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/themes/

Ony a Wind0ws system with MiKTeX as TEX distribution this will probably look like this (or similar).

Code: Select all

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\tex\latex\beamer\themes

For example, if you want to find out where the »default« beamer theme is located, use the tools of the Kpathsea library on the command line.

Code: Select all

kpsewhich beamerthemedefault.sty

As you can see, the file names for a theme follow a certain scheme. They are all named beamertheme‹nameoftheme›.sty for the main themes. Other themes (color, font, …) are named similar. I think the beamer user guide has some more information about that.


Thorsten