Re: beamer: completion for \usetheme and \usecolortheme

From: Reiner Steib <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: beamer: completion for \usetheme and \usecolortheme
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:52:20 +0100

> > This is a quick hack, but we can get the list of beamer's theme name.
> [...]
> 
> Thanks.  Below[1] is my version `LaTeX-beamer-search-themes' based on
> your suggestion.
> 
Brilliant!

> > We can get beamercolotheme*, beamerfonttheme*, beameroutertheme*,
> > and so forth.  (Maybe, we should remove themes which start small
> > letter from list of themes, because they are still available only
> > for backward compatibility.)
> 
> ACK.  See the results[2] of calling `LaTeX-beamer-search-themes' with
> various arguments.

Of course, you would prepare variables
`LaTeX-beamer-colortheme', etc...?

> > If "beamer.cls" is in `/ush/share/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/base/',
> > then beamer theme files would be in "../themes/theme" 
> > (relative path from `beamer.cls').
> 
> I think the user can also put his on beamer*theme.sty files in his
> texmf tree (or in TEXINPUTS).

Yes, you are right.  And when the beamer's path structure is
changed, such a relative path will confuse the user (and even us).
It's a bad idea.  Forget it.

> When I added completion for \includegraphics{}, some people complained
> that such a completion function is too slow for them.  Therefore I'd
> like to make the completion customizable:
> 
I felt it slow, too ;)

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