I would try something like this:
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,12pt]{report}
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%% PACKAGES & SETTINGS
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\usepackage[english]{babel} % formatting rules for the English language
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % proper formatting for accented characters and non-standard characters such as pipelines
\usepackage{mathptmx}% fot a font which looks like Times New Roman (serif/roman)
%\usepackage{tgtermes}% an altternative
\usepackage[scaled=.90]{helvet}% for a font which looks like Helvetica, scaled to match TNR (sans)
%\usepackage{tgheros}% an altternative
\usepackage{courier}% for a font which looks like Courier (typewriter/monospaced)
%\usepackage{tgcursor}% an altternative
\usepackage{float} % allow floating environments such as figures
\usepackage{amsmath} % math eqn formatting
\usepackage{amssymb} % math fonts
\usepackage[top=33mm, bottom=38mm, left=26mm, right=20mm]{geometry} % page layout
\setlength{\parindent}{5ex}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% DOCUMENT
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% TITLE PAGE
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\title{title here}
\author{author details}
\date{\today}
\maketitle
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%% START OF REPORT
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\end{document}
This will not use Times New Roman itself as that is not included in TeX Live, being a commercial font, but standard substitutions will be used. The commented lines are alternative substitute fonts from the TeX Gyre family. See which you prefer or which look most like TNR to you.
If you have TNR itself, you can use it if you wish. However, you must either use XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX rather than (pdf)LaTeX, or you must find or generate suitable support files for it. Moreover, the latter is only really an option if you have the font in type1 format or, for pdfLaTeX, truetype format or the licence permits conversion. It you want to know how to generate support files, let me know. I'm assuming there's no reason to in this case since the rules explicitly permit substitution.
The paragraph indentation is trickier. What, you wonder, do they mean by 'space'? This is not obvious in TeX. If they mean the space between words, that is not fixed but varies to get good line breaks etc. Setting it to 5ex
seems not entirely unreasonable. This is equivalent to 5 times the nominal width of the letter 'x'. This 'looks about right' to me but see what you think.
Note that it is recommended to specify american
or british
or whatever for babel
rather than english
because different versions default to different options. You might also pass this to the class so that any package which can use the option will get it.
A quick and dirty solution is to add a \vspace{}
after the frametitle
% Now that we have changed the headline, we will need to orient the frame titles in a way that the come at the right stop just above the horizontal line.
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{
\vspace*{4mm}\hspace*{0mm}\insertframetitle \vspace*{1cm}}
Full code:
%% beamerthemeMedian.sty
%% Author: Yiannis Gatsoulis
%% Date: November 2014
%% Preamble
\mode<presentation>
\RequirePackage{pgfcomp-version-0-65, textpos, xcolor, tikz}
%\voffset=2cm
%\topmargin=2cm
%\headsep=2cm
%\headheight=3cm
%% Variables
\newcommand\modulecode[1]{\def\insertmodulecode{#1}}
\modulecode{}
\newcommand\modulelongname[1]{\def\insertmodulelongname{#1}}
\modulelongname{}
\newcommand\moduleshortname[1]{\def\insertmoduleshortname{#1}}
\moduleshortname{}
\newcommand\handoutname[1]{\def\inserthandoutname{#1}}
\handoutname{}
\newcommand\titlesmallboxtext[1]{\def\inserttitlesmallboxtext{#1}}
\titlesmallboxtext{\inserthandoutname}
\newcommand\titlebigboxtext[1]{\def\inserttitlebigboxtext{#1}}
\titlebigboxtext{\inserttitle}
\newcommand\titleverybigboxtext[1]{\def\inserttitleverybigboxtext{#1}}
\titleverybigboxtext{\insertmodulecode: \insertmoduleshortname}
%% Colors
%\definecolor{ColorBgCanvas}{RGB}{230,230,250}
\definecolor{ColorBgCanvas}{RGB}{255,255,255}
\definecolor{ColorMain}{rgb}{0, 0, 0} % (rgb - 0, 0, 0) is nothing but black
\definecolor{ColorBigBox}{RGB}{41,65,113}
\definecolor{ColorBigBoxText}{RGB}{255, 255, 255}
\definecolor{ColorSmallBox}{RGB}{116,140,188}
\definecolor{ColorSmallBoxText}{RGB}{255, 255, 255}
% This sets the colour of the title of the presentation and titles of all the slides in the presentation to black.
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg = ColorMain}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg = ColorMain}
% In case you choose to display the Table of Contents, or the Outline slide.
\setbeamercolor{section in toc}{fg = ColorMain}
\setbeamercolor{section in toc shaded}{fg = ColorMain}
% The colour of all the items, subitems and and subsubitems are set to black.
% NOTE: Setting the color black for all the items also sets in black for other environemnts like enumerate
\setbeamercolor{item}{fg = ColorMain}
\setbeamercolor{subitem}{fg = ColorMain}
\setbeamercolor{subsubitem}{fg = ColorMain}
% This sets the color for each item heading of the description environment.
%\setbeamercolor{description item}{fg = Descitem}
% colours for captions for figures and tables.
\setbeamercolor{caption}{fg = ColorMain}
\setbeamercolor{caption name}{fg = ColorMain}
% In addition, we can also change the background colour of the slides depending on pur requirement.
%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=ColorBgCanvas}
% the colour of the text
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{fg=ColorMain}
%% Boxes
% Standard block
\setbeamercolor{block title}{bg=ColorSmallBox, fg=ColorSmallBoxText}
\setbeamercolor{block body}{bg=white}
% Alert block
\setbeamercolor{block title alerted}{bg=ColorSmallBox, fg=ColorSmallBoxText}
\setbeamercolor{block body alerted}{bg=white}
% Example block
\setbeamercolor{block title example}{bg=ColorSmallBox, fg=ColorSmallBoxText}
\setbeamercolor{block body example}{bg=white}
%%%%
%% Font theme
% Here we are using default fonts
\usefonttheme{professionalfonts}
%\setbeamerfont{}{size=\Large}
%\setbeamerfont{normal text}{size=\Large}
% Font of the frame titles
\setbeamerfont{frametitle}{size=\Large}
%%%%
%% Inner theme
\useinnertheme{rectangles}
%% Lists
\setlength{\leftmargini}{4mm}
\setbeamertemplate{itemize item}{\tikz{\draw[color=ColorSmallBox, semithick] rectangle(.18,.18);}}
%\setbeamertemplate{itemize/enumerate body begin}{\normalsize}
\setbeamertemplate{itemize subitem}{\tikz{\draw[color=ColorBigBox, ultra thick] rectangle(.15,.15);}}
\setbeamertemplate{itemize subsubitem}{\tikz{\draw[color=ColorSmallBox, semithick, fill] rectangle(.12,.12);}}
\setbeamertemplate{sections/subsections in toc}[square]
% The default option for enumerate environment removes the circles around the numbers provided by the "rounded" inner theme. Just simple numbers remain.
\setbeamertemplate{enumerate items}[default]
\setbeamerfont{enumerate item}{size=\small}
%%%%
%% Outer theme
\newcommand{\MedianLine}{%
\ifnum \insertpagenumber=1
\else
\raisebox{-15mm}[0pt][0pt]{%
\begin{pgfpicture}{0mm}{0mm}{0mm}{0mm}
\pgfsetlinewidth{3mm}
\color{ColorSmallBox}
\pgfline{\pgfpoint{-1cm}{0mm}}{\pgfpoint{-0.1cm}{0mm}}%
\pgfsetlinewidth{3mm}
\color{ColorBigBox}
\pgfline{\pgfpoint{0mm}{0mm}}{\pgfpoint{12cm}{0mm}}%
\end{pgfpicture}}
\fi}
% Include the line that we just created in the headline
\setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{\MedianLine}
% Now that we have changed the headline, we will need to orient the frame titles in a way that the come at the right stop just above the horizontal line.
\setbeamertemplate{frametitle}{
\vspace*{4mm}\hspace*{0mm}\insertframetitle \vspace*{1cm}}
%% Footline
\newcommand{\Ffootline}{%
\ifnum \insertpagenumber=1
\else
\insertmodulecode: \insertmoduleshortname % The left end of the footline
\hfill
\inserthandoutname~\inserttitle % The center
\hfill
\insertsection~~~~\insertframenumber % And the right end
\fi
}
\setbeamertemplate{footline}{%
\usebeamerfont{structure}
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=2.25ex,dp=1ex]{title in head/foot}%
\Tiny\hspace*{4mm} \Ffootline \hspace{4mm}
\end{beamercolorbox}}
%% Remove the navigation symbols
\setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{}
% We declare the image that will be used as the logo
%\pgfdeclareimage[width = 0.40\paperwidth]{big}{leeds_logo.png}
%% Title page
\setbeamertemplate{title page}{
%\begin{textblock*}{12cm}(6cm,-4.75cm)
%\colorbox{ColorBgCanvas}{%
%\begin{minipage}[t][3cm][b]{10cm}
%\pgfuseimage{big}
%\end{minipage}}
%\end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{12cm}(2.15cm,1cm)
\colorbox{ColorBgCanvas}{%
\begin{minipage}[t][3cm][b]{10cm}
{\color{black}\Large\inserttitleverybigboxtext}
\end{minipage}}
\end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{3cm}(-1cm,5cm)
\colorbox{ColorSmallBox}{%
\begin{minipage}[t][6mm][c]{2.75cm}
{\color{ColorSmallBoxText}\small\inserttitlesmallboxtext}
\end{minipage}}
\end{textblock*}
\begin{textblock*}{10cm}(2.15cm,5cm)
\colorbox{ColorBigBox}{%
\begin{minipage}[t][6mm][c]{10cm}
{\color{ColorBigBoxText}\small\inserttitlebigboxtext}
\end{minipage}}
\end{textblock*}
}
\mode
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Best Answer
If you are using the AAU report template which I wrote 2 years ago. In
DocLayout
it uses thescrreprt
from KOMAscriptYou will need to look into the KOMA-script manual to find a way to change the margins. After a little searching I found the
DIV
option. Setting it to 14 should give a small margin. But you can change the value to your liking.There might be other ways to set the margin in KOMA script, but I never looked into it as I preferred the standard.
UPDATE If you want even margins, you need to change from a two sided report style to a one sided report style (even margins). In
DocLayout
at the\LoadClass
line, changetwoside
to eithertwoside=semi
oroneside
You will also need to apply the same change to the
\KOMAoption{twoside}
line infrontpage.tex