latex input: mmd-beamer-header
Title: MultiMarkdown Support for Beamer
Subtitle: A quick example
Author: Fletcher T. Penney
Affiliation: http://fletcherpenney.net/
Copyright: 2009-2011 Fletcher T. Penney.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
latex mode: beamer
LaTeX XSLT: beamer
Event: MMD Beamer Announcement
Date: August 13, 2009
Theme: keynote-gradient
latex input: mmd-beamer-begin-doc
latex footer: mmd-beamer-footer
Template: pas13
Basically, it converts plain text into pretty documents:
HTML
PDF
RTF
and, now, PDF presentations
What is Beamer?
Beamer is a LaTeX class that allows you
to create PDF presentations, such as this one.
My goal is not to teach you the ins and outs of Beamer, or LaTeX for that
matter. Rather, I want to show you the settings that you need to convert a
MultiMarkdown document into a Beamer presentation.
How do you use it?
Stuff to install
You need a working installation of:
MultiMarkdown
LaTeX (including pdflatex)
the beamer class
If you can create a regular PDF via LaTeX from MultiMarkdown, you are
probably good to go.
Optional Stuff
I like Shawn Lankton's [keynote theme]
(http://www.shawnlankton.com/2008/02/beamer-and-latex-with-keynote-theme/)
for beamer. I made a of slight modification for my own version, which is
what you see here.
It's much more attractive than the default themes, but still has room for
improvement.
You can find some additional Keynote knock-offs by [Ed Long]
(http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucbpeal/latexposter.html)
Create a MMD document
Include the necessary metadata
You can use the following metadata:
latex input: mmd-beamer-header
Title: Some title
Subtitle: An optional subtitle
Date: An optional date
Author: Author's name
Affiliation: an optional institutional affiliation
LaTeX xslt: beamer
latex mode: beamer
event: an optional event name
theme: an optional beamer theme to use
latex input: mmd-beamer-begin-doc
latex footer: mmd-beamer-footer
