[Tex/LaTex] Delete institute-space in title page (beamer class)

beamer

Using the beamer class, I designed the title page as follows:

\documentclass[]{beamer}
\title[]{This is the title.} 
\author{The name.}
\date{The date.}
\titlegraphic{
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth{titlegraphic.jpg}
\end{center}}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\titlepage 
\end{frame}
\end{document}

However, there is a big space between the name and the date, where usually the institute is set. How can I delete this space and move name and date closer?

Best Answer

The only way I see to this is to define your own title page template.

The beamer documentation claims that your example should not insert space for the institute, but that is not the observed behaviour.

Setting up your own title page template is fortunately not too complex: use \setbeamertemplate{title page} and place the beamer generated commands such as \inserttitle etc. in a center environment.

Sample output

\documentclass{beamer}

\title{This is the title} 
\author{The name}
\date{The date}

\titlegraphic{%
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\end{center}}

\setbeamertemplate{title page}
  {\begin{center}
      {\usebeamerfont{title}\usebeamercolor[fg]{title}\inserttitle}\\[1ex]
      {\usebeamerfont{author}\usebeamercolor[fg]{author}\insertauthor}\\[1ex]
      \insertdate\\
      \inserttitlegraphic
    \end{center}
    }

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage 
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Update You now tell us you are using the CambridgeUS theme. This loads the innertheme rounded which in turn calls the default title page template with extra options colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=\beamer@themerounded@shadow. The best thing to do in this situation is to take the default template, defined in beamerinnerthemedefault.sty, and define a new title page template by removing the beamercolorbox for the institute. Calling this new template noinstitute you can then set the title page up with 

\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{title page}[noinstitute][colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=\beamer@themerounded@shadow]
\makeatother

The \makeatletter...\makeatother is need because of the @ characters used in the internal names.

Sample output for CambdrigeUS theme

\documentclass{beamer}

\usetheme{CambridgeUS}

\title{This is the title} 
\author{The name}
\date{The date}

\titlegraphic{%
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{example-image-a}
\end{center}}

\defbeamertemplate{title page}{noinstitute}[1][]
{
  \vbox{}
  \vfill
  \begingroup
    \centering
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{title}
      \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle\par%
      \ifx\insertsubtitle\@empty%
      \else%
        \vskip0.25em%
        {\usebeamerfont{subtitle}\usebeamercolor[fg]{subtitle}\insertsubtitle\par}%
      \fi%     
    \end{beamercolorbox}%
    \vskip1em\par
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{author}
      \usebeamerfont{author}\insertauthor
    \end{beamercolorbox}
    \begin{beamercolorbox}[sep=8pt,center,#1]{date}
      \usebeamerfont{date}\insertdate
    \end{beamercolorbox}\vskip0.5em
    {\usebeamercolor[fg]{titlegraphic}\inserttitlegraphic\par}
  \endgroup
  \vfill
}

\makeatletter
\setbeamertemplate{title page}[noinstitute][colsep=-4bp,rounded=true,shadow=\beamer@themerounded@shadow]
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage 
\end{frame}

\end{document}
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