[Tex/LaTex] Blank slide generated between the title and the first content slides when using beamer with pandoc

beamerpandoc

I am new to beamer. Given the following mwe:

---
title: Tensorflow
subtitle: Cloud Computing Capstone Presentation 
fonttheme: structurebold
author: Stephen Boesch
fontsize: 12pt
output:
  rmarkdown::html_document:
    theme: lumen
    fig_caption: no        
---

## TensorFlow!

Distributed DataFlow Graph based Mathematical Computations
Google's Second Generation Deep and Machine Learning Platform

And running with:

pandoc –slide-level=2 -H beamer.tex -s -t beamer –toc-depth=5 –toc –pdf-engine xelatex -o mwe.pdf mwe.md

There is a blank page generated after the pandoc generated title slide and before the Tensforflow! headed first content slide.

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Any tips how to fix this? thanks.

Best Answer

The empty slide contains the ToC, which is empty, since you are not using toplevel devisions (i.e. #). This could be solved by either adding a toplevel devision:

---
title: Tensorflow
subtitle: Cloud Computing Capstone Presentation 
fonttheme: structurebold
author: Stephen Boesch
fontsize: 12pt
output:
  rmarkdown::html_document:
    theme: lumen
    fig_caption: no        
---

# Part 1

## TensorFlow!

Distributed DataFlow Graph based Mathematical Computations
Google's Second Generation Deep and Machine Learning Platform

Or by omitting the option --toc when calling pandoc.

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