Writing slides w/ Pandoc and Beamer (and ReST)

[frasertweedale]

This is a bit of a meta-talk about how I write my talk slides using Pandoc to turn ReST -> Beamer presso -> PDF.

Outline

• intro to Pandoc
• basic formatting
• code
• math
• raw LaTeX
• images
• Unicode and foreign languages
• Beamer appearance and themes
• Other approaches (HTML+JS slideshows, Markdown, plain old Beamer, etc)

There will be demos toward the end for e.g. applying themes, changing slide aspect ratio etc.

For BFPG I can also make a diversion into Pandoc internals.