TeX - LaTeX Asked by chrisb2244 on February 1, 2021
I’ve been working through the detailed answer to this question: Design a custom Beamer theme from scratch and have a question regarding paths.
I’m building a theme to be used in multiple presentations. I have a directory structure (git repo) as follows:
|- Presentations (top-dir)
|
|_.git (and subfolders)
|
|_Presentation1
| |-presentation1.tex
| -presentation1.{aux,pdf} etc
|
|_Presentation2
| |-presentation2.tex
| -presentation2.{aux,pdf} etc
|
_Theme
|-beamerthememytheme.sty
|-beamerinnerthememytheme.sty
|-beamerouterthememytheme.sty
-beamercolorthememytheme.sty
I seem to have a few options to use this theme:
Symbolically link all 4 files into each presentation. Adds to setup cost, can complicate handling with git, but works nicely and doesn’t require peculiar handling in the theme files
Abandon usetheme{mytheme}
and use usepackage{../Theme/beamerthememytheme}
in the presentationN.tex
file. This also works for the main .tex file, but seems to require that my theme file now reads usepackage{../Theme/beamerinnerthememytheme}
instead of the simpler useinnertheme{mytheme}
Remove extra files. Use only beamerthememytheme.sty
and copy the contents of {inner,outer,color} themes into that file. I can also rename to make this simpler by removing the leading beamertheme
label, since I have to use usepackage
anyway. This seems undesirable for readability/maintainability, but I suppose is a tradeoff if the alternatives are complicated.
Is there any way to specify from a .sty file the part that it is included with? In my case, I would imagine I could then go ahead and include <unknown-inclusion-relative-path>/beamerinnerthememytheme
without concern that I might have presentations want to include this from outside of this directory structure (not a major problem, but would be nice to avoid limiting possibilities whilst I still have ability to easily change).
Following the suggestion of Ulrike Fischer in the comments to the question, I ran the following command using the Windows Command Prompt.
initexmf --register-root="%cd%"
from the top-level directory, having moved the them file into the directory
top-level-dir/text/latex/themename
and I can now successfully use usetheme{themename}
.
The command can be run from a .bat file or similar, making it easier to carry out in a newly cloned repository.
An equivalent Linux script might be something like (untested):
initexmf --register-root="$(pwd)"
I used the command prompt to avoid possible issues when my 'Linux' prompt is in fact via mingw and git-bash (which often causes path problems converting to/from Windows/Linux).
Answered by chrisb2244 on February 1, 2021
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