Beamer presentations¶

Template name: beamer Aliases: slides, presentation Class file: beamer (standard LaTeX class, no third-party file required) Citation style: natbib plainnat

Covers¶

Lecture slides, conference presentations, seminar talks.
Any content where a sequence of frames (slides) is more appropriate than a flat article body.

The body of the document is compiled with pandoc's -t beamer writer, which turns heading-delimited sections into \begin{frame}…\end{frame} blocks. The Jinja2 outer template owns only the document scaffolding — class options, theme, title metadata, and the optional title and bibliography frames.

YAML setup¶

journal:
    template: beamer

beamer:
    theme: default          # any installed Beamer theme; default: "default"
    colortheme: seahorse    # optional colour theme
    fonttheme: serif        # optional font theme
    aspectratio: 169        # optional: 169 | 1610 | 149 | 54 | 43 | 32
    slide_level: 2          # heading level that becomes a frame (default: 2)

At minimum, only journal.template: beamer is required; all beamer: keys are optional.

Preamble loaded¶

amsmath, amssymb, amsfonts, bm
graphicx / booktabs
natbib

Additional packages can be declared via metadata.packages in the frontmatter (duplicates of the above are silently skipped).

Frame syntax¶

With the default slide_level: 2, level-2 headings (## Frame title) become individual frames:

# Section title

## First frame

Content of the first slide.

## Second frame

More content.

Setting beamer.slide_level: 1 promotes level-1 headings to frames instead.

Recognised YAML keys (`beamer:` block)¶

Key	Default	Effect
`theme`	`default`	`\usetheme{…}`
`colortheme`	(none)	`\usecolortheme{…}`
`fonttheme`	(none)	`\usefonttheme{…}`
`aspectratio`	(none)	`\documentclass[aspectratio=…]{beamer}`
`slide_level`	`2`	`--slide-level=N` passed to pandoc

Title and bibliography¶

A title frame (\titlepage) is inserted automatically when title: is present in the frontmatter. A bibliography frame is inserted automatically when bibliography: is present. Authors map to \author{…} and affiliations to \institute{…}.

Limitations (v1)¶

Overlays / pauses — \pause, \only<>, \uncover<> etc. are not specially supported; use raw LaTeX if needed.
Posters — out of scope; use a dedicated poster class.
Per-frame options — custom frame options (fragile, shrink, …) require raw LaTeX fenced divs; no YAML shorthand is provided.