path for outhertheme in beamer templates

Question

I want to store my templates in the same folder as my presentations. I have created templates using a file beamertemplatefoo.sty that contains :

\useoutertheme[subsection=false]{foo}
\useinnertheme{foo}
\usecolortheme{foo}

I have a subdirectory for each presentation. If I put all the 4 templates files in the subdirectory, I can simply call \usetemplate{foo}.

However, it is not very clean to have multiples occurences of the same file. I could symlink them to some file in the directory containing all the presentations but I was rather thinking of using Where to place custom beamer themes to call beamertemplatefoo.sty outside of the subdirectory using a \usepackage{../templates/beamertemplatefoo}. This searches outer and inner templates (and color theme) in the subdirectory where my .tex file is located. How can I manage such decomposition of my template puting all file in a subdirectory ?

Answer 1

I would recommend to move the templates folder to a location where latex can find it, see Where do I place my own .sty or .cls files, to make them available to all my .tex files? for more details.

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If you want to keep your current folder structure, your beamer theme could call the subthemes in the same way as you call your main theme:

\usepackage{../templates/beamerouterthemefoo}