Makefile

Now make will do everything, no need of md2pdf.sh make Lesson-1 make Lesson-2

md2pdf.sh

use shell scripts md2pdf.sh to generate Lesson-x.pdf automatically

./md2pdf.sh Lesson-1 

then Lesson-1.pdf will be under slides/

Introduction

Very good introduction started from here http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.com/2012/07/beamer-pandoc-markdown.html

pandoc -t beamer --slide-level 3 Lesson-1.md -o talk.tex
xelatex main.tex 

main.tex will include talk.tex automatically, main.tex defines the theme

slide-level 3 means ###

Reference

• http://www.casparant.com/posts/know-how-to-make-a-latex-beamer-template.html
• http://www.hartwork.org/beamer-theme-matrix/
• http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Presentations#The_Built-in_solution