This repository is a fork of markdown-talk that contains a collection of templates for quickly writing presentations (in Markdown) and scientific reports (in LaTeX). Modifications have been made to fit my specific use cases.
The Makefile details how the translation works. If you are on Linux, simply
calling make in the parent directory will compile the report to a PDF if all
dependencies are installed. Edit the variables in the Makefile to choose a
theme (check this webpage for a
gallery).
Although writing in Markdown is (in my opinion) much faster and less tedious than trying to set up beamer autocompletion in LaTeX, the Pandoc conversion still has some minor quirks, so fiddling with the .tex output will often be necessary. To avoid unnecessary trouble, avoid using columns on slides with citations.
guard.sh is a script that calls make whenever any changes in the directory
are written. I personally have no need for it because I have my editor
recompile automatically after every write.
- pandoc (version >= 1.16)
- pandoc-fignos
- pandoc-citeproc
- a latex-distribution (e.g., texlive) including bibtex
- latex-beamer
NOTE: Pandoc 1.16 is recommended because image-attributes are not available before that version.
Matthias Mittner matthias.mittner@uit.no