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Customising the look of beamer presentations created using orgmode

Some examples of how to customise the look of beamer presentations created using orgmode.

1. Changing the colors.

#+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \usetheme{Warsaw} \usecolortheme{beaver} \usefonttheme{serif} \setbeamertemplate{caption}[numbered] \useinnertheme{circles} #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \setbeamercolor{title}{fg=green!40!black} #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \useoutertheme{split} #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \setbeamercolor{section in head/foot}{fg=green!50!black} #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \setbeamercolor{subsection in head/foot}{fg=green!50!black} #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \setbeamercolor{item}{fg=green!50!black}

2. Adding logo on the title frame. (Replace unilogo with name of the file containing your [...]

Hindi/Devanagari presentations using orgmode, R, latex and beamer

I recently had to prepare a beamer presentation in hindi/devanagari. I usually use emacs-orgmode  with a lot of R source code embedded in it to prepare my beamer presentations. To adapt the entire setup to work with devanagari, this is what I needed to do.

    

Make orgmode export to latex using xetex rather than [...]

Skip outline frame in org-beamer

Beamer presentations created by org-beamer have, by default, a frame that displays outline of the presentation immediately after the title frame.

If you do not want this outline frame, add the following line in the headers of the org file.

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil

org-beamer would now create the presentation without the outline frame.

etenil on [...]