ULiege-Latex - Customization packages for Latex classes

This repository contains various packages that can be used alongside any latex class or package. These packages implement specific customizations for the layout, colors, etc that fit (or approach) the official ULiege graphical guidelines.

None of these packages are officially endorsed by the University. They were just implemented in order to support my own material (presentation, thesis, reports, etc), produced during my Ph.D. Thesis and Teaching Assistant mandate.

As these packages are meant to be used within the institution only, there is no need to publish them officially on CTAN. The only way to get them is through this repository (see [Installation][#Installation]).

Package list

ULiege-colors

This package implements the official color palette of the University of Liège. The full palette is available following RGB, HTML or CYMK conventions.

Important: This package is a dependency for all other packages, therefore it must always be present in your system (or at least in the project directory) before trying to use the other packages.

ULiege-trigon

This package customizes the Trigon theme for Beamer in order to follow the ULiège style recommendations. Its main purpose is to pick the right color palette and logos for the different faculties of the University.

The Trigon theme is available directly on CTAN. The source code of this theme is on my personal gitlab repository, under the free software license CC-BY-SA 4.0. Trigon has been integrated in TexLive in April 2021, therefore it should be readily available on all new installations of Latex (if not, just update your system and install the package through your package manager).

I also published an official template for the Trigon theme on the Overleaf template gallery to bootstrap quickly a presentation.

Examples

Applied Sciences	Philosophy

ULiege-trigonthesis

WORK IN PROGRESS: Not released yet.

This package customizes the trigonthesis package to create nice looking theses and reports. Trigonthesis is itself a package meant to be used with the scrbook or srcreport document classes (provided by the KOMA-script package). It creates a modern, nice looking document that fits quite nicely with the general guidelines of the University.

The package ULiege-trigonthesis acts a bit like ULiege-trigon does for the beamer theme. It customizes and adapts the various options offered by trigonthesis in order to be closer to the official style of the University. It also sets the colors properly for the various faculties.

As the graphical guidelines of the University do not explicitly mention theses, some compromises regarding the exact graphical guidelines were made (fonts, headers, margins,...). Moreover, I do not really feel that these guidelines are really appropriate for long scientific documents anyway (such as theses). Therefore some liberties were made here and there during the elaboration of both trigonthesis and ULiege-Trigonthesis.

To be determined

I also plan to create the following packages if I find some free time (or when I will need them):

• Short reports (based on scrreprt)
• Long reports (based on scrreprt, result would probably be similar to ULiege-trigonthesis)
• Posters (no idea yet)
• Letters (based on scrlttr2)

Installation

There is no formal install script for this. Simply copy the content of this repository (the *.styfiles and the images/ folder) in the root of your latex project and just use the package as any other one:

\usepackage{ULiege-colors}
\usepackage{ULiege-trigon}

An other possibility would be to place these directly somewhere where latex will always find them (see the path documentation for Latex for more details).

Documentation

The complete documentation for these packages is not written yet. This section is a very short summary.

ULiege-colors

Simply load the package. You can then use the custom colors as you would for any regular color

\usepackage{ULiege-colors}
\begin{document}
\color{ulgBlueGreen}{This text is in Blue-Green}, the official color of the
Univeristy; while \color{ulgOrange}{This text is in Orange}, the official color
of the applied sciences faculty.
\end{document}

For all the color names (and their attribution), refer to the content of ULiege-colors.sty.

ULiege-trigon

In a beamer document using the Trigon class, load the package as follows

\usepackage[faculty=XXX,titlelogo=YYY,slidelogo=ZZZ]{ULiege-trigon}

Where

• XXX is used to customize the color theme and can be one of the following:

  • uliege: ULiege style (default)
  • ssoc: Social sciences
  • apps: Applied sciences
  • med: Medicine
  • agro: Agro-Bio Tech
  • gemb: Gembloux agro-bio tech
  • psy: Psychology
  • phi: Philosophy
  • sci: Sciences
  • vet: Veterinary medicine
  • law: Law
  • hec: HEC (Management School)
  • arch: Architecture

• YYY is the logo to use on the titleslide. Three values are possible:

  • none: (default) no logo on titleslide
  • uliege: ULiege logo
  • fac: Faculty logo (as defined with faculty=XXX)

• ZZZ is the logo to use for the regular slides. The three same options are possible for the slidelogo:

  • none: no logo on content slides
  • uliege: (default) ULiege logo
  • fac: Faculty logo (as defined with faculty=XXX)

If nothing is mentioned, the default values are applied. Note that some faculties do not have a custom slidelogo (the "U" with the triangles colored following the faculty theme). In that case, the uliege logo will be used by default, even though you specified slidelogo=fac.

License

Copyright 2022 by Thomas Lambert t.lambert@uliege.be.

Author and maintainer: Thomas Lambert.

All these packages are licensed under the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL).

If you encounter some issues or have ideas/feature requests, do not hesitate to contact me or use the issue tracker.