README.md

Markdown to lecture slides

slides

The slides directory contains slides for my course "General Biology".

Modified from agoldst's repo.

Check example.md for basic syntax. Then generate PDF slides with

make example.slides.pdf

To generate PDF handouts, with

make example.notes.pdf

To force updating and make slide and note PDFs at once.

make example -B

make clean to delete all intermediate files.

tikz

Graphics by tikz.

arara ch-21

materials

Video materials.

See list.md for details.

articles

Markdown + Latex

Others

resize.sh changes sizes and resolutions of pictures.

Tools needed

• TeXLive
  • here
  • Or MacTex
• Fonts
  • Fira: brew cask install font-fira-sans font-fira-mono
  • Source Han Sans SC (思源黑体)/Hiragino Sans GB (冬青黑体简体中文)
  • LXGW WenKai (霞鹜文楷)

Pandoc templates

slides/beamer.template.tex is a customized pandoc template for beamer.

Variables and control statements in pandoc templates

1. $---$: variables. Can be provided with YAML document or pandoc -V key=value.

   ---
   title: "21 基因的分子生物学"
   author: "王强"
   institute: "南京大学生命科学学院"
   date: \today{}
   ...

   pandoc $< \
   		-t beamer \
   		--template beamer.template.tex \
   		--latex-engine xelatex \
   		--slide-level 2 \
   		-V fontsize=12pt \
   		-V bibliography=course.bib \
   		--toc \
   		-o $(basename $@).tex

2. $if(---)$ --- $else$ --- $endif$: conditional branch statements.

   Inline.

   $if(fontsize)$$fontsize$,$endif$
   

   Standalone.

   $if(listings)$
   \usepackage{listings}
   $endif$
   

3. $for(---)$ --- $endfor$: loop statements.

   $for(bibliography)$
   \addbibresource{$bibliography$}
   $endfor$
   

4. $body$ contains all the contents of input.md file after processed by Pandoc converter.