I am developing my own beamer theme. As part of the theme I want the section slides to have the section title on the same position as the other slides.
At this moment the position is a little off. The normal slides look like this,
The section slides like this,
The code I developed is included below.
document.tex
\documentclass[t,10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{amssymb,amsmath}
\usepackage{ifxetex,ifluatex}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{longtable,booktabs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{beamerthemeBeamerSOME}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Welcome}
\end{frame}
\section*{Introduction to R syntax}
\frame{\sectionpage[yellow]}
\end{document}
beamerthemeBeamerSOME.sty
\ProvidesPackage{beamerthemeBeamerSOME}[2007/05/05 v1.3 for beamer 3.01]
\mode<presentation>
% Import of standard packages
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
% Set fonts to Arial
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}
\setsansfont{Arial}
% Color Definitions
\definecolor{darkgray}{RGB}{64,64,64}
\definecolor{yellow}{RGB}{255,210,0}
\usecolortheme[RGB={255,210,0}]{structure}
\providebool{SHOW_LINE_IN_FOOTER}
\providebool{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}
\boolfalse{SHOW_LINE_IN_FOOTER}
\booltrue{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}
\newif\ifbeamer@secheader
\beamer@secheaderfalse
\DeclareOptionBeamer{secheader}{\beamer@secheadertrue}
\ProcessOptionsBeamer
\useinnertheme{SOME}
\useoutertheme{infolinesSOME}
\setbeamerfont{title}{size=\fontsize{15}{17},series=\bfseries}
\setbeamerfont{subtitle}{size=\fontsize{15}{17},series=\bfseries}
\setbeamerfont{date}{size =\fontsize{10.5}{11}}
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{series=\bfseries}
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=darkgray,bg=white}
\setbeamersize{text margin left=1em,text margin right=1em}
\mode<all>
beamerinnerthemeSOME
\ProvidesPackage{beamerinnerthemeSOME}[2004/12/20 v1.0 for beamer 3.01]
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{xparse}
\ProcessOptionsBeamer
\mode<presentation>
\setbeamertemplate{section page}{
\global\boolfalse{SHOW_LINE_IN_FOOTER}
\ifbool{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
\node at (current page.center) {
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{yellow_divider.pdf}
};
\end{tikzpicture}}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]
\node at (current page.center) {
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]{gray_divider.pdf}
};
\end{tikzpicture}}
\global\booltrue{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}%
% Code from beamerouterthemedefault.sty
\strut\usebeamerfont{frametitle}\insertsectionhead\strut
}
\let\oldsectionpage\sectionpage
\renewcommand{\sectionpage}[1][\@nil]{%
\def\tmp{#1}%
\ifx\tmp\@nnil%
\global\booltrue{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}%
\else%
\edef\mytemp{{#1}}%
\expandafter\ifstrequal\mytemp{gray}{\global\boolfalse{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}}{%
\global\booltrue{DIVIDER_IS_YELLOW}}%
\fi%
\oldsectionpage%
}
\makeatother
\mode<all>
beamerouterthemeinfolinesSOME.sty
\ProvidesPackage{beamerouterthemeinfolinesSOME}[2004/11/27 v1.0 for beamer 3.01]
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\mode<presentation>
\setbeamercolor*{author in head/foot}{parent=palette tertiary}
\setbeamercolor*{title in head/foot}{parent=palette secondary}
\setbeamercolor*{footer info}{parent=palette primary}
\setbeamercolor*{section in head/foot}{parent=palette tertiary}
\setbeamercolor*{subsection in head/foot}{parent=palette primary}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=darkgray}
\setbeamercolor{palette primary}{fg=darkgray,bg=white}
\setbeamercolor{palette secondary}{fg=white,bg=darkgray}
\setbeamercolor*{palette tertiary}{fg=darkgray, bg=white}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=darkgray}
\setbeamercolor{section number projected}{fg=white,bg=darkgray}
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}
{
\vskip4pt
\insertframetitle
\par
\vskip5pt
\color{yellow}
\centering
\rule{0.94\paperwidth}{0.9pt}
}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}
{
\leavevmode
\centering
\ifbool{SHOW_LINE_IN_FOOTER}{%
\rule{0.94\paperwidth}{0.2pt}}{\global\booltrue{SHOW_LINE_IN_FOOTER}}
\vskip5pt
\hbox{
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.02\paperwidth,ht=0.0ex,dp=3ex,left]{footer info}%
% dummy box
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.1\paperwidth,ht=4ex,dp=1ex,left]{footer info}%
\usebeamerfont{author in head/foot}
Page \insertframenumber{}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.2\paperwidth,ht=4ex,dp=1ex,center]{footer info}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshortdate{}\hspace*{2em}
\end{beamercolorbox}%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.5\paperwidth,ht=4ex,dp=1ex,left]{footer info}%
\usebeamerfont{date in head/foot}\insertshorttitle
\end{beamercolorbox}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=.03\paperwidth,ht=0.0ex,dp=3ex,left]{footer info}%
% dummy box
\end{beamercolorbox}%
}
\vskip2pt
}
\makeatletter
\defbeamertemplate{note page}{plain2}
{
\vskip2.25em
\nointerlineskip
\begin{minipage}{0.95\textwidth} % this is an addition
\insertnote
\end{minipage} % this is an addition
}
\makeatother
\setbeamertemplate{note page}[plain2]
\mode
<all>
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