• CTAN update: beamertheme-durham

    From CTAN Announcements@petra@ctan.org to CTAN Announcements on Tue Feb 24 10:04:48 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.text.tex

    Suhail Rizwan submitted an update to the

    beamertheme-durham

    package.

    Version: 1.1.0 2026-02-23
    Note:
    Unfortunately, due to an internal bug, the update routine
    of our Catalogue webpages is temporarily not working properly.
    It may therefore take a few days until the updated information
    appears on https://ctan.org/pkg/beamertheme-durham.
    Sorry for the inconvenience!

    License: lppl1.3c

    Summary description: A content-first Beamer theme for teaching, research, and long-form academic presentations

    Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    This release introduces significant structural and usability
    improvements while maintaining the themerCOs design philosophy
    of clarity, cognitive restraint, and structured navigation.

    Major Changes

    - User-defined theme color via Theme_Color

    - Robust section title handling, including safe support for
    mathematical expressions

    - User-configurable Outline and Thank You slides

    - Dedicated \makereferences{} command for references slide
    (excluded from progress indicators)

    - Refined accessibility mode

    - Support for plain + invert and accessibility + plain + invert

    - Improved internal stability and option handling

    - The theme is designed to be compiled with LuaLaTeX (recommended).

    - Documentation, demo presentation, and updated manual are included.

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    The packagerCOs Catalogue entry can be viewed at
    https://ctan.org/pkg/beamertheme-durham

    The packagerCOs files themselves can be inspected at
    https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer-contrib/themes/beamertheme-durham/

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    Thanks for the upload.

    For the CTAN Team
    Petra R|+be-Pugliese

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