beamertheme-niederrhein – a generic Beamer template in the Niederrhein style

Name

beamertheme-niederrhein

Version

1.5 (2026-11-02)

Author

Alexander Rachmann (alexander.rachmann@hs-niederrhein.de) Hochschule Niederrhein, Fachbereich Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen

License

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL), version 1.3c or later. See the file LICENSE for the full license text. The latest version of this license is in https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later.

This work has the LPPL maintenance status 'maintained'. The Current Maintainer of this work is Alexander Rachmann.

The file hsnr-logo.png is a generic placeholder graphic created for this package. It does not depict any real institution's logo, and it carries the same license as the rest of the package. Institutions that want their own logo on the slides can replace this file (or supply their own PNG via \hsnrlogodatei{...}) and recompile; see beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.pdf for details.

Summary

beamertheme-niederrhein is a generic beamer template inspired by the house style of Hochschule Niederrhein (HSNR). It defines ready-made slide types for lecture presentations: a title slide, a section-divider slide, ordinary content slides with a source-citation line, and three image-slide layouts (two, three, or four images sharing a single caption). Bibliographies are handled through biblatex with the bibtex8 backend – no separate biber binary required.

Files Included

beamertheme-niederrhein.sty       The package itself (colors, logo, slide types).
hsnr-logo.png                     Placeholder logo (required for pdfLaTeX/XeLaTeX).
beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.tex    Documentation and demo slide deck (source).
beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.pdf    Documentation and demo slide deck (compiled).
hsnr-example.tex                  Minimal starter template to copy.
hsnr-literatur.bib                Sample bibliography for hsnr-example.tex
                                   and beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.tex.
hsnr-beispiel-quer.png,
hsnr-beispiel-hoch.png            Placeholder images for the image-slide examples.
README.md                         This file.
LICENSE                            Full text of the LPPL 1.3c.

Installation

Via a TeX Live/MiKTeX package manager (once available on CTAN): simply use \usepackage{beamertheme-niederrhein} in your own beamer presentation.

Manual: place the contents of this package (beamertheme-niederrhein.sty, hsnr-logo.png) in a directory TeX can find – either your personal texmf tree (see kpsewhich -var-value=TEXMFHOME), or directly next to your own .tex file.

Usage

See hsnr-example.tex for a minimal starter template, and beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.pdf (or its source beamertheme-niederrhein-doc.tex) for full documentation of every slide type with examples: title slide, section divider, content slides with source citations and references, and the three image-slide layouts.

Compiling with a bibliography (four passes):

pdflatex hsnr-example.tex
bibtex8 hsnr-example
pdflatex hsnr-example.tex
pdflatex hsnr-example.tex

Note: the title slide, section-divider slide, and logo are positioned using a TikZ overlay spanning the full page. This requires two compile passes after any content change, since LaTeX only knows the exact page size after the first pass.

Contact / Bug Reports

alexander.rachmann@hs-niederrhein.de