cookiecutter-mdbeamer

This is a cookiecutter template for a quickly and comfortably creating beamer presentations without all the tedious typing associated with LaTeX.

The slides contents are prepared using markdown which minimizes the typing and then the pdf slides are build through an automated process first using pandoc to convert .md to .tex. Then .tex is converted to .pdf through latexmk using luatex as the LaTeX engine.

Style

The appearance is largely based on the metropolis theme however some of the color and font schemes are customized. To take full advantage of the modified theme install the two following fonts:

• Yanone Kaffeesatz - used for the titles and structure elements
• roboto - slide contents

The syntax highlighting is using the minted package and therefore requires Python and pygments to work properly.

Usage

First make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

• GNU make

• pandoc

• LaTeX

• luatex

• latexmk

• cookiecutter

• pygments

• minted.lua

Install cookiecutter and:

$ cookiecutter git@github.com:lmmentel/cookiecutter-mdbeamer.git

After modifying the .md file with the slide contents simply type

make pdf

and the slides should be built in the build directory.

Options

A few selected options are available to to further customize the appearance:

• aspectratio - aspect ratio of the slides, allowed values are: 1610 for 16:10, 169 for 16:9, 149 for 14:9, 141 for 1.41:1, 54 for 5:4, 43 for 4:3 and 32 for 3:2
• fontsize - size of the document font, default 10pt

Example

The example slides are avaialble also as a pdf.