latex input:    mmd-beamer-header
Title:                  MultiMarkdown Support for Beamer  
Subtitle:               A quick example
Author:                 Fletcher T. Penney  
Affiliation:    http://fletcherpenney.net/
Copyright:              2009-2011 Fletcher T. Penney.  
                                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.  
                                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
latex mode:             beamer  
LaTeX XSLT:             beamer
Event:                  MMD Beamer Announcement  
Date:                   August 13, 2009  
Theme:                  slippery-chicken
latex input:    mmd-beamer-begin-doc
latex footer:   mmd-beamer-footer

<!-- % # MultiMarkdown and Beamer # -->>

<!-- % ## What is it? ## -->


### What is MultiMarkdown? ###

[MultiMarkdown](http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/ "MultiMarkdown") is a derivative of John Gruber's [Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ "Daring Fireball: Markdown").

Basically, it converts plain text into pretty documents:

* HTML <!-- \pause -->
* PDF
* RTF
* and, now, PDF presentations


<!-- % ## How do you use it? ## -->

### What is Beamer? ###

[Beamer](http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ "The LaTeX Beamer Class
Homepage") is a [LaTeX](http://www.latex-project.org/) class that allows you
to create PDF presentations, such as this one.

My goal is not to teach you the ins and outs of Beamer, or LaTeX for that
matter. Rather, I want to show you the settings that you need to convert a
MultiMarkdown document into a Beamer presentation.



### Stuff to install ###

You need a working installation of:

* MultiMarkdown
* LaTeX (including pdflatex)
* the beamer class

*If you can create a regular PDF via LaTeX from MultiMarkdown, you are
probably good to go.*


### Optional Stuff ###

* I like Shawn Lankton's [keynote theme]
  (http://www.shawnlankton.com/2008/02/beamer-and-latex-with-keynote-theme/)
  for beamer. I made a of slight modification for my own version, which is
  what you see here.

* It's much more attractive than the default themes, but still has room for
  improvement.

* You can find some additional Keynote knock-offs by [Ed Long]
  (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpeal/latexposter.html)


### Create a MMD document ###


### Include the necessary metadata ###

You can use the following metadata:

        latex input:    mmd-beamer-header
        Title:                  Some title
        Subtitle:               An optional subtitle
        Date:                   An optional date
        Author:                 Author's name
        Affiliation:    an optional institutional affiliation
        LaTeX xslt:             beamer
        latex mode:             beamer  
        event:                  an optional event name
        theme:                  an optional beamer theme to use
        latex input:    mmd-beamer-begin-doc
        latex footer:   mmd-beamer-footer


### Just as a demo ###

![](Nautilus_Star.png)


### Another demo ###

| First         | Second      | Third |  
| ------------- | ----------- | ----- |  
| a longer cell | short       | short |  
| short         | longer cell | short |  

