markdown to beamer-pdf or markdown to latex to post processing to beamer-pdf

[jeromyanglim]

I really like the minimum fuss of markdown to beamer-pdf. However, there is the tension that sooner or later you don't like the default choices made or you want to take advantage of powerful features.

Thus,

• What is the best way to override default features?
• What is the best way to use non-standard options?

To a certain extent latex will be just passed through, but sometimes you want to override the default behaviour of Markdon to LaTeX. Also, sometimes I want to add header information.

[jeromyanglim]

Reasons to got markdown to latex to pdf

• I'm noticing pretty quickly, I want to add additional features to the document not supported by default.
• Seeing the latex allows me to identify problems by examining the latex source.

I've adopted to a two stage approach for now, and I think that for all but the simplest of slideshows markdown is inadequate. See this comment and also the repository itself for the adopted solution.