The RLI corporate identidy implemented as a theme for Latex document class beamer. Usable with both, LaTeX and Markdown through pandoc. Here are some example slides
You need to have some Latex packages installed. Linux users may use
sudo apt install texlive
sudo apt install texlive-xetex # to use unicode-aware xelatex
sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended # for latex beamer
sudo apt install texlive-fonts-extra # maybe required for fonts
The theme uses the RLI house font Nunito Sans (Corporate Design 2025), loaded via
fontspec, so slides must be built with XeLaTeX (or LuaLaTeX) — not pdflatex.
The font is not part of this repository and must be installed on your system.
Download Nunito Sans (e.g. from Google Fonts,
or the RLI Corporate Design package), which provides the required faces — Regular, Bold,
Italic, Bold Italic, and ExtraBold (used for headings) — then install them, e.g. on Linux:
mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
cp NunitoSans-*.ttf ~/.local/share/fonts/ # from your download
fc-cache -f
Verify they are found with fc-list | grep -i nunito.
sudo apt install pandoc
When using pandoc, it's recommended to use a version >2.0. Ubuntu/Debian user should know that pandoc from official sources might be outdated. Consider to install a newer version.
For using citations with pandoc pandoc-citeproc is required
sudo apt install pandoc-citeproc
You need the .sty files and the img/ folder right next to your slides.md file.
Recommended workflow
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Have the clone of https://github.com/rl-institut/beamer_theme/
git clone git@github.com:rl-institut/beamer_theme.git -
Keep it up-to-date
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Copy required files to your slides path
cp -r beamer_theme/img/ beamer_theme/*.sty <path-of-slide.md>
Make sure you have following two lines in the preamble
\documentclass[aspectratio=169]{beamer}
\usetheme{rli}
Build example slides from .tex file
xelatex example-slides.tex
and then: happy building your own slides 🎉.
See the example_slides.tex for some hints on how to create slides with latex beamer.
If bibtex citations are used, run the following commands for correctly processing newly added citations
xelatex example-slides.tex
bibtex example-slides.aux
xelatex example-slides.tex
xelatex example-slides.tex
When using Markdown (.md) files for creating slides, include the following in the front matter
---
- title: <Title>
- ...
- theme: rli
---
Convert .md files to beamer PDF slides by
pandoc -t beamer --listings --pdf-engine=xelatex -o example-slides.pdf example-slides.md
The --listings flag makes pandoc typeset code blocks with the listings package
(line numbers, syntax colors) matching the LaTeX build, instead of its default
highlighter. The corresponding \lstset lives in the front matter's header-includes.
To enable processing of citations, set bibliography: bib/example.bib in the front
matter and add --citeproc
pandoc -t beamer --listings --citeproc --pdf-engine=xelatex -o example-slides.pdf example-slides.md
Note: --citeproc requires pandoc ≥ 2.11. On older pandoc, replace it with
--filter pandoc-citeproc (install the separate pandoc-citeproc package). If you
use pandoc version <2.0, also replace --pdf-engine by --latex-engine=.
Have a look into example_slides.md for details and examples.
For a custom reference list format, you can download a
Citation Style Language (CSL) file from
zotero to your ./bib directory. Activate the
style by passing the option --csl bib/<STYLE_FILE>.csl to pandoc, e.g.
--csl bib/chicago-author-date-de.csl.
To generate a full bibliography, regardless of whether the entries were
referenced on the slides or not, use the option nocite: '@*' in the header
of the front matter.
Contributions are welcome! Read CONTRIBUTING for developing workflow. If you don't know how to help, see issue for upcoming release.