tamu-talk - A Texas A&M theme for ltx-talk

Disclaimer

This package is independently maintained and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Texas A&M University in any capacity. "Texas A&M" and its logos are trademarks of Texas A&M University. For this reason, the logo is not included in this package; if you are authorized to use it, tamu-talk makes it easy to add (see Obtaining and Using the Texas A&M Logo).

Beware that tamu-talk is a theme for the (experimental) ltx-talk class. As such, its interface is liable to modification as we track changes made to this class.

Description

tamu-talk is a lightweight Texas A&M theme for the ltx-talk class. It restyles ltx-talk's slide templates (title page, header, footer) using LaTeX's template mechanism; see texdoc ltx-talk and texdoc lttemplates. ltx-talk is a beamer-like presentation class that produces tagged (accessible) PDFs. The purpose of tamu-talk is to minimally stylize and decorate these slides made with this class.

Specifically, the point of this package is to provide the following:

• a stylized, easy to modify title page, with formatting options
• frame headers in three different styles (banner, ribbon, plain)
• (optional) frame numbers in the footer
• several Texas A&M brand colors (TAMUMaroon, TAMUTan, etc)
• a few named tcolorbox environments using these colors for organizing content

We intend to deliberatly keep tamu-talk small and limited in scope; however, bug-fixes and improvements to this code would be appreciated.

Requirements

• LaTeX 2026-06-01 or newer
• ltx-talk 2026-09-10 or newer
• tcolorbox and graphicx

Installation

tamu-talk is distributed through CTAN. Install it with your TeX distribution's package manager, e.g. with TeX Live:

tlmgr install tamu-talk

MiKTeX users can install it from the MiKTeX Console.

To install the latest development version from source, use l3build (included in TeX Live):

git clone https://github.com/wsmith-sch/tamu-talk.git
cd tamu-talk
l3build install --full

Usage

tamu-talk works only with the ltx-talk class:

\documentclass{ltx-talk}
\usepackage[header-style = plain]{tamu-talk}

Options can also be set later in your preamble using \SetKeys[tamu-talk]{...}. See the documentation (texdoc tamu-talk) for a more detailed description of the various keys and options.

Obtaining and Using the Texas A&M Logo

Texas A&M makes its logos available to faculty and staff for marketing and informational material; anyone else needs the university's approval ( c.f. logo downloads). The logo itself is trademarked and, as such, we do not include it as an asset in this package. However, we intend to make it as painless as possible to use this logo in your slides if you are authorized to do so.

The class itself works without the logo. If you explicitly set title-logo = true without having installed this logo, it will show a gray placeholder with a warning instead. If you are authorized to use the logo, add it as follows:

1. Download the "TAM Maroon" logo (PNG), and follow the university's logo guidelines.
2. Save it as tamu-logo.png (you are encouraged to crop it tightly around the logo, so that it fills its space on the title page; for the sharpest result, export the SVG to a large PNG and crop that instead).
3. Put it where TeX can find it, using one of these:
   • Once for all documents locally: a tamu-talk-logo folder in your personal texmf tree, e.g. ~/texmf/tex/latex/tamu-talk-logo/tamu-logo.png. Run kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME to find that tree on your system.
   • For one document: the same folder as your .tex file. On Overleaf, upload it to your project.

To use a file with a different name, set logo-file as follows:

\SetKeys[tamu-talk]{logo-file = my-department-logo}

and then place this asset in any of the afformentioned locations.

Bugs and contributing

Please report bugs (or ask questions at) https://github.com/wsmith-sch/tamu-talk/issues.

Author

Wyatt Smith: <216wsmith@gmail.com>

License

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later. See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt.