Footnotes Processed Improperly for Beamer Output

[cesuslow]

When attempting to use footnotes for beamer output, they are rendered incorrectly in the final PDF. Footnotes are rendered correctly when using the default beamer template or when using pandoc-latex-template to output non-beamer pdfs.

Modifying the footnotes-pretty and footnotes-disable-backlinks options did not affect this behavior.

Pandoc versions tested: pandoc 2.2.1 and 2.9.2.1

Replication:

• Invocation to replicate error behavior:
  • pandoc mfe.md -o mfe.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex --from markdown+footnotes --to beamer --slide-level 2 --template ./pandoc-latex-template/eisvogel.tex --resource-path=. --listings
• Invocation for valid result without template:
  • pandoc mfe.md -o mfe-default.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex --from markdown+footnotes --to beamer --slide-level 2 --resource-path=. --listings

mfe.md

--
title: "minimal example"
author: [cesuslow]
date: "2021-01-21"
subject: "subject"
keywords: [intro]
lang: "en"
...

## A Header
- A bullet
    - A subbullet 
- A bullet with a footnote[^1]

[^1]: The footnote

Resultant PDFs: mfe.pdf mfe-default.pdf

[Wandmalfarbe]

Thank you for reporting this issue! Unfortunately I have to inform you that Eisvogel was never really made for beamer output. I try to fix all issues and merge with the upstream template regularly, however beamer will always be inferior to the normal article output. Nonetheless, thank you for your Report. I'll leave this issue open, but it may be open for quite some time.