beamermarkdownpandoc
According to
I see the command for turning an md file into a beamer pdf file.
pandoc -t beamer SLIDES -o example8.pdf
When I change the extension to tex instead of pdf,
pandoc -t beamer SLIDES -o example8.tex
the body of the tex file gets produced but there is no preamble. (No \begin{document}, etc)
Is there a way to get the tex file for beamer with the headings? It's not that big of a deal, but it would be convenient.
Short answer: no.
Long answer:
The only ways an automated script can know that the output should contain the word "Proof" are:
1) This knowledge is hardcoded in the script. It knows about the meaning of some latex commands and environments (the via taken by pandoc)
2) It can run tex code and get the output (via taken by t4ht, for example)
The first approach is not flexible enough, since you can load packages which are not known by the script, and which define commands that will be ignored (in addition, your document can define your own commands too).
The second approach can be done via pdflatex followed by some "pdf to text" converter, or via latex followed by dvi2tty, or via tex4ht. In any case, it loses the original tex markup, and then is not appropiate if you want to keep the "code" of the math formulae.
Let's see an example. Consider the following document:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nopageno} % No page numbers
\usepackage{amsthm}
\begin{document}
\begin{proof}
This is a proof
\[
\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2
\]
\end{proof}
\end{document}
Running it through standard pdflatex you get:
If you run it through pandoc, you get the following .txt:
This is a proof $$\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2$$
in which you lost the word "Proof", and the final end-of-proof mark, but it keeps the formula markup.
If you run it through pdflatex and then pdftotxt you get:
Proof. This is a proof
∞
x2
i=0
which keeps the word "Proof", but completly messes the formula
If you run it through latex and then dvi2tty, you get:
Proof. This is a proof
1X
x2
i=0
|___|
Which is closer to the pdf output, but still loses the formula markup.
If you run it through tex4ht you get an HTML version of the document, which can be in turn processed by pandoc to get the following .txt:
Proof. This is a proof ∞ ∑ i=0 x2 \_\_
As you can see, none of the solutions is satisfactory.
Try using a different markdown format, e.g:
pandoc -t markdown_strict --filter=pandoc-citeproc --standalone mybib.md -o mybib-out.md
The formats are listed in pandoc's documentation.
The default setting is pandoc's markdown which might not generate the bibliography.
Best Answer
Pandoc has you covered! It is set up to produce document "fragments" by default, but there's the
-sor--standaloneflag, which will give you a whole.texfile. So something likeshould do the trick.