several improvments to the beamer template

[beamer-mako] / template / example.tex

diff --git a/template/example.tex b/template/example.tex
index 09f148b6ade6a67fd03e03f5bb17b4c97ce4cdee..7a7ea1d7a45bcec5a27c216fd4be38af38863b55 100644 (file)
--- a/template/example.tex
+++ b/template/example.tex
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 \documentclass[xcolor=dvipsnames]{beamer}
 
+% set up the file to create notes in the output PDFs
+\usepackage{pgfpages}
+\input{notes.config}
+
 \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ugm}
 \usepackage[garamond]{mathdesign}
 
@@ -54,6 +58,11 @@
 % \usepackage{dcolumn}
 % \usepackage{booktabs}
 
+% replace footnotes with symbols instead of numbers
+\renewcommand*{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}
+\usepackage{perpage}
+\MakePerPage{footnote}
+
 %% BEAMER THEME STUFF
 \usetheme[pageofpages=/,% String used between the current page and the
                          % total page count.
@@ -144,11 +153,9 @@
 \begin{frame}[plain]
   \titlepage
 
-% pdfpc:begin
-% 
-% This is the slide 1 notes.
-
-% pdfpc:end
+% include version control stuff
+\input{vc}
+\tikz[overlay,shift=(current page.south west)]{\node [xshift=5.6em,yshift=0.5em]{\colorbox{makopurple1}{\color{white} \tt \smaller \smaller \smaller revision:\ \VCRevision\  (\VCDateTEX)}};} 
 \end{frame}
 
 %% SLIDE: Slide 2