On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 2:47:44 PM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:

Put those under 'variables':

variables:
  height: whatever

Dominique <dominiq...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Thanks, that seems reasonable. There's more to learn about Pandoc every day!
>
> I tried writing a defaults file but Pandoc complains that certain options
> in there are not recognized. In particular, "height" and "revealjs-url"
> appear invalid. They were recognized in the yaml header block (in the main
> md source file).
>
> Same problem with Beamer: option "aspectratio" is not recognized.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at 1:58:50 AM UTC-4, John MacFarlane wrote:
>>
>>
>> Personally I'd suggest using a defaults file for the theme
>> and other presentational details, reserving the YAML metadata
>> for actual metadata.
>>
>> You could have one defaults file for revealjs and another for
>> beamer; in addition to different themes, these could specify
>> the output format.
>>
>> Dominique <dominiq...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes:
>>
>> > I wrote a presentation in Markdown and converted it to HTML with pandoc
>> > using the revealjs format. I set several options in the yaml header,
>> > including the theme.
>> >
>> > Now I would like to export the same presentation to PDF using the beamer
>> > output format. However, pandoc complains that the theme I selected for
>> > Reveal.js isn't recognized for Beamer. Conversely, I would like to set
>> > options for Beamer (e.g., aspectratio) that aren't recognized for
>> Reveal.js.
>> >
>> > Could someone show an example of a yaml header block that specifies
>> options
>> > for two or more output formats?
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
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