BFH Lecture

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BFH Lecture Template

A template for lecture slides in the BFH corporate design, based on the bfhbeamer class of bfh-ci with the sidebar theme. From one source file it builds the slides, several handout variants and a reader in article form.

Installation and the general use of latexmk are described in the general README of the BFH LaTeX templates; this file covers only what is specific to this template.

Files

File	Purpose
`bfhlecture.tex`	A lecture: preamble and example slides.
`variables.sty`	Settings shared by all lectures of a course: course title, author, institute, title picture.
`Makefile`	Builds the output variants (see below).
`.latexmkrc`	latexmk configuration (see the general README).

Organising a course

Use one .tex file per lecture and keep the course-wide data in variables.sty, which every lecture loads with \usepackage{variables}:

in variables.sty: \title (course), \author, \institute, \titlegraphic*{...}
in each lecture file: \subtitle, \lecture[<short>]{<title>}{<label>} and \version

Name the lecture files with a common prefix, e.g. lecture01.tex, lecture02.tex; this lets the Makefile build a single lecture (see below).

Pictures are searched in lectures/, pictures/ and figures/ (\graphicspath). SVG files in images/ are converted to PDF by the Makefile with cairosvg before each build.

Output variants

Variant	`make` target	Class option	Output file
Slides for presenting, with overlays	`make slides`	`final`	`<file>-slides.pdf`
Printable handout with space for notes	`make handouts`	`paperNotes`	`<file>-print.pdf`
Handout for tablets, no notes area	`make tablet`	`tabletNotes`	`<file>-tablet.pdf`
Printable handout including the `\note` texts	`make notes`	`printNotes`	`<file>-notes.pdf`
Reader in article layout (A4)	`make article`	`beamerarticle`	`<file>-reader.pdf`

make alone builds all variants. The PDFs end up in _build/.

One lecture only: add the file name without .tex after the target, e.g. make slides lecture01. This works for names matching LECTURE_PREFIX (default lecture% bt% mt%). For other names, set the prefix: make slides bfhlecture LECTURE_PREFIX=bfh%. Without a file name, all .tex files in the directory are built.

Without make, the same variants are built with latexmk, e.g. the slides of one file:

latexmk -lualatex -usepretex="\PassOptionsToClass{final}{bfhbeamer}" -jobname="%A-slides" lecture01.tex

Replace final and the suffix slides with the option and suffix from the table for the other variants.

Cleaning: make clean / make mrproper run latexmk -c / latexmk -C (mrproper also deletes editor backup files *~); make distclean removes _build/ and _output/.

Writing slides

Title page: \maketitle in a plain frame. Choose the layout with \setbeamertemplate{title page}[...]: BFH-graphic and BFH-fullgraphic (with the title picture), BFH-Orange, or the default. The template shows three variants; keep the one you want.
Sections: \section and \subsection structure the sidebar; with \sectionpage a separator slide is inserted.
Notes for the lecturer: \note{...} after a frame. The text appears only in the notes variant.
Overlays in handouts: handouts are built without animation. Use the handout overlay specification to control what appears there, e.g. \only<3-|handout:0>{...} shows content from slide 3 on in the presentation but not in handouts.
Tables: bfhTabular from \LoadBFHModule{tabular}; colours can be set locally with \colorlet{BFH-table}{...} and \colorlet{BFH-tablehead}{...}.
Frame numbers are shown (page number in head/foot set to framenumber).

Languages

The main language is English (class option english); German (ngerman) and French are loaded as well. For German slides, change the class option to ngerman and use \usepackage[french,english,main=ngerman]{babel}. French changes the layout of lists (see bfh-ci issue #166); uncomment \frenchsetup{StandardLists=true} to keep the standard lists.

Feedback

Report problems and suggestions via the bfh-ci issue tracker: https://gitlab.ti.bfh.ch/bfh-latex/bfh-ci/-/issues