The command: `$ pandoc --slide-level=2 -t beamer -o test.tex test.md` produces LaTeX where there is text ('Foo') outside of a frame. If ignorefametext is removed from the template, doing $ pandoc --slide-level=2 -t beamer -o test.pdf test.md` would give different results, i.e., 'Foo' would now be printed on a new slide after the section, rather than not appearing at all.

On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 22:26:02 UTC+2 Thomas Hodgson wrote:

Is there a case where it would be expected that something would be written outside a frame, and that it should be ignored?

I have checked the modified template with sections, and with subsections, and without either.

On Sunday, 13 September 2020 at 21:23:19 UTC+2 John MacFarlane wrote:

We used to ignore stuff outside of frames.
However, this changed with
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/commit/f431f67b2f2f5071345fa5800658375afaf44c1b
(somewhat controversially)

It may be that after this commit, removing ignorenonframetext
would be okay. Maybe someone can test that out (with a lot of
different cases, please).

Thomas Hodgson <thomas....-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> The default.latex template uses the 'ignorenonframetext' for Beamer. Is
> there a good reason for this? If that was removed from the template, there
> would be no need to handle making titles differently for beamer and other
> formats, i.e., it could be done with `\maketitle` in both cases. I think
> that that's better when using themes that treat a title slide differently
> from ordinary slides (such as Metropolis).
>
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