Where does pandoc look for beamer templates?

Where does pandoc look for beamer templates?

[Glen Henshaw]

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I'm new to pandoc. I'm trying to generate slides, which have to use my 
organization's (provided) beamer theme.

If I place all of the necessary files (including five beamertheme files and 
all of the associated graphics files) in the working directory, everything 
works fine. But this is very difficult to keep organized. There are nearly 
20 files there. Ideally, I'd like to either store the beamertheme files in 
a resources directory inside my project directory, or put them somewhere on 
the system in a permanent location.

But I can't get either of these options to work. I've created a 
~/.pandoc/templates directory, and placed the files there. Pandoc says it 
can't find them. I've also created a <myproject>/resources/templates/ 
directory and stored them there, and beamer can't find them. I call pandoc 
with the --data-dir=<myproject>/resources; nope. I've also tried pandoc 
--resource-path=<myproject>/resources. Still no.

This has to be easy, right?

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Re: Where does pandoc look for beamer templates?

[Glen Henshaw]

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So... getting no response, I take it that this isn't easy after all?

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 5:05:43 PM UTC-5, Glen Henshaw wrote:
>
> I'm new to pandoc. I'm trying to generate slides, which have to use my 
> organization's (provided) beamer theme.
>
> If I place all of the necessary files (including five beamertheme files 
> and all of the associated graphics files) in the working directory, 
> everything works fine. But this is very difficult to keep organized. There 
> are nearly 20 files there. Ideally, I'd like to either store the 
> beamertheme files in a resources directory inside my project directory, or 
> put them somewhere on the system in a permanent location.
>
> But I can't get either of these options to work. I've created a 
> ~/.pandoc/templates directory, and placed the files there. Pandoc says it 
> can't find them. I've also created a <myproject>/resources/templates/ 
> directory and stored them there, and beamer can't find them. I call pandoc 
> with the --data-dir=<myproject>/resources; nope. I've also tried pandoc 
> --resource-path=<myproject>/resources. Still no.
>
> This has to be easy, right?
>

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Re: Where does pandoc look for beamer templates?

[Glen Henshaw]

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Well. For future reference, should any other lost souls have this problem:

One way to solve the problem is to add the location of the beamer .sty 
files to the TEXINPUTS environmental variable.

In ,y case I'm actually using a Makefile to build my presentation, and I 
have Makefile variables defined for the resource directory where I have my 
beamer templates, so I add the following code to the pertinent line of the 
makefile:

    $(OUTDIR)/%.pdf: $(SRCDIR)/%.md
        export TEXINPUTS=".:$(CURDIR)/$(RESDIR)/templates:"
        pandoc $(PANDOC_FLAGS_BEAMER) -o $@ $<

Note that the trailing ":" on the export command is critical.


On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 at 10:52:22 AM UTC-5, Glen Henshaw wrote:
>
> So... getting no response, I take it that this isn't easy after all?
>
> On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 5:05:43 PM UTC-5, Glen Henshaw wrote:
>>
>> I'm new to pandoc. I'm trying to generate slides, which have to use my 
>> organization's (provided) beamer theme.
>>
>> If I place all of the necessary files (including five beamertheme files 
>> and all of the associated graphics files) in the working directory, 
>> everything works fine. But this is very difficult to keep organized. There 
>> are nearly 20 files there. Ideally, I'd like to either store the 
>> beamertheme files in a resources directory inside my project directory, or 
>> put them somewhere on the system in a permanent location.
>>
>> But I can't get either of these options to work. I've created a 
>> ~/.pandoc/templates directory, and placed the files there. Pandoc says it 
>> can't find them. I've also created a <myproject>/resources/templates/ 
>> directory and stored them there, and beamer can't find them. I call pandoc 
>> with the --data-dir=<myproject>/resources; nope. I've also tried pandoc 
>> --resource-path=<myproject>/resources. Still no.
>>
>> This has to be easy, right?
>>
>

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Re: Where does pandoc look for beamer templates?

[John MacFarlane]

I think you figured it out yourself.

--resource-path will only affect things pandoc does
itself (e.g. in processing include files or
converting images).  It deosn't affect where latex
finds its resources -- for that you need TEXINPUTS.

Though, come to think of it, it might not be a bad
idea to add the directories in resource-path to
TEXINPUTS when pandoc runs tex...

Glen Henshaw <glen.henshaw-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I'm new to pandoc. I'm trying to generate slides, which have to use my 
> organization's (provided) beamer theme.
>
> If I place all of the necessary files (including five beamertheme files and 
> all of the associated graphics files) in the working directory, everything 
> works fine. But this is very difficult to keep organized. There are nearly 
> 20 files there. Ideally, I'd like to either store the beamertheme files in 
> a resources directory inside my project directory, or put them somewhere on 
> the system in a permanent location.
>
> But I can't get either of these options to work. I've created a 
> ~/.pandoc/templates directory, and placed the files there. Pandoc says it 
> can't find them. I've also created a <myproject>/resources/templates/ 
> directory and stored them there, and beamer can't find them. I call pandoc 
> with the --data-dir=<myproject>/resources; nope. I've also tried pandoc 
> --resource-path=<myproject>/resources. Still no.
>
> This has to be easy, right?
>
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