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pandoc/extra: Add support for beamertheme-metropolis?

cagix opened this issue · 5 comments

cagix commented

This is a polite request to include beamertheme-metropolis (https://github.com/matze/mtheme, http://ctan.org/pkg/beamertheme-metropolis) into the pandoc/extra Docker image.

The beamertheme-metropolis style is quite popular for creating slides with the Beamer class. It would be helpful if you could include this in the pandoc/extra image. This would allow me to use your fine image directly in a GitHub action, and would eliminate the need to define a derived Docker image.

Thank you very much!

cagix commented

Actually, it could be done quite easily with that:

## Install extra packages for Beamer/Metropolis
tlmgr install beamertheme-metropolis                \
              pgfopts                               \
              tcolorbox                             \
              environ                               \
              tikzfill
daamien commented

Hi @cagix !

I agree it would be nice to have a beamer theme.

Looking at the github project activity, the project seems very quiet and the maintener is absent

matze/mtheme#363

Do you have experience using pandoc with this theme ? Can you provide a simple working example for CI tests ?

cagix commented

Indeed, the repository of the beamertheme-metropolis theme seems not to have been updated for a long time, which might be good reason not to include it in the pandoc/extra image.

On the other hand, it is a really nice theme for Beamer slides, which is also frequently used1 and works quite well with Pandoc and which is unfortunately not included in the default installation of Beamer, i.e. as a user you'd still have to install a few additional TeX packages.

As for the mwe you'd asked for:

---
title: "Wuppie"
author: "My Cat"
---

## First Slide

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
> incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis
> nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
> Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore
> eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt
> in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
>
> \hfill -- Lorem ipsum

## Summary

So long and ...

You can compile it using Pandoc via23 pandoc -t beamer --variable=theme:metropolis --variable=themeoptions:numbering=none mwe.md -o mwe.pdf

mwe.md
mwe.pdf
mwe.txt (Github won't allow a .tex file, so I changed the extension from "tex" to "txt" for upload.)

Footnotes

  1. Well, at least I happen to come around Metropolis slide sets quite often, and have enjoyed using this theme myself for many years :) ↩

  2. It just needs pandoc -t beamer --variable=theme:metropolis mwe.md -o mwe.pdf to engage the Metropolis theme. ↩

  3. Not sure about CI, since the effect of this theme would be visible in the emitted PDF only? Perhaps use the LaTeX intermediate code? pandoc -t beamer --variable=theme:metropolis -s mwe.md -o mwe.tex? ↩

cagix commented

thanks!

cagix commented

@daamien @alerque just tested with pandoc/extra:edge and can confirm: beamer+metropolis seems to be functional :) thanks again! 🙏

to be complete:

docker run --rm --volume "`pwd`:/data" --user `id -u`:`id -g` pandoc/extra:edge  -t beamer --variable=theme:metropolis --variable=themeoptions:numbering=none mwe.md -o mwe.pdf`
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