Added 'beamer' as an output format.

Beamer output uses the default LaTeX template, with some
customizations via variables.

Added `writerBeamer` to `WriterOptions`.

Added `--beamer` option to `markdown2pdf`.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/README b/README
index fa3a4e818..4a906f97e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ Pandoc is a [Haskell] library for converting from one markup format to
 another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read
 [markdown] and (subsets of) [Textile], [reStructuredText], [HTML],
 and [LaTeX]; and it can write plain text, [markdown], [reStructuredText],
-[HTML], [LaTeX], [ConTeXt], [RTF], [DocBook XML], [OpenDocument XML], [ODT],
-[GNU Texinfo], [MediaWiki markup], [EPUB], [Textile], [groff man] pages,
-[Emacs Org-Mode], [AsciiDoc], and [Slidy], [DZSlides], or [S5] HTML
-slide shows.
+[HTML], [LaTeX], [LaTeX beamer], [ConTeXt], [RTF], [DocBook XML],
+[OpenDocument XML], [ODT], [GNU Texinfo], [MediaWiki markup], [EPUB],
+[Textile], [groff man] pages, [Emacs Org-Mode], [AsciiDoc], and [Slidy],
+[DZSlides], or [S5] HTML slide shows.
 
 Pandoc's enhanced version of markdown includes syntax for footnotes,
 tables, flexible ordered lists, definition lists, delimited code blocks,
@@ -151,20 +151,19 @@ Options
 `-t` *FORMAT*, `-w` *FORMAT*, `--to=`*FORMAT*, `--write=`*FORMAT*
 :   Specify output format.  *FORMAT* can be `native` (native Haskell),
     `json` (JSON version of native AST), `plain` (plain text),
-    `markdown` (markdown), `rst` (reStructuredText),
-    `html` (HTML), `latex` (LaTeX), `context` (ConTeXt), `man` (groff man), 
-    `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup), `textile` (Textile), `org` (Emacs
-    Org-Mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo), `docbook` (DocBook XML),
+    `markdown` (markdown), `rst` (reStructuredText), `html` (HTML), `latex`
+    (LaTeX), `beamer` (LaTeX beamer), `context` (ConTeXt), `man` (groff
+    man), `mediawiki` (MediaWiki markup), `textile` (Textile), `org`
+    (Emacs Org-Mode), `texinfo` (GNU Texinfo), `docbook` (DocBook XML),
     `opendocument` (OpenDocument XML), `odt` (OpenOffice text document),
     `epub` (EPUB book), `asciidoc` (AsciiDoc), `slidy` (Slidy HTML and
     javascript slide show), `dzslides` (HTML5 + javascript slide show),
-    `s5` (S5 HTML and javascript slide show), or `rtf` (rich text
-    format). Note that `odt` and `epub` output will not be directed to
-    *stdout*; an output filename must be specified using the `-o/--output`
-    option.  If `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`, `latex`, or `html`,
-    the output will be rendered as literate Haskell source:
-    see [Literate Haskell support](#literate-haskell-support),
-    below.
+    `s5` (S5 HTML and javascript slide show), or `rtf` (rich text format).
+    Note that `odt` and `epub` output will not be directed to *stdout*; an
+    output filename must be specified using the `-o/--output` option. If
+    `+lhs` is appended to `markdown`, `rst`, `latex`, or `html`, the output
+    will be rendered as literate Haskell source: see [Literate Haskell
+    support](#literate-haskell-support), below.
 
 `-s`, `--standalone`
 :   Produce output with an appropriate header and footer (e.g. a
@@ -580,6 +579,14 @@ depending on the output format, but include:
     `http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2`)
 `s5-url`
 :   base URL for S5 documents (defaults to `ui/default`)
+`font-size`
+:   font size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt) for LaTeX and beamer documents
+`documentclass`
+:   document class for LaTeX documents
+`theme`
+:   theme for beamer documents
+`colortheme`
+:   colortheme for beamer documents
 
 Variables may be set at the command line using the `-V/--variable`
 option. This allows users to include custom variables in their
@@ -1903,12 +1910,14 @@ document with an appropriate header:
 The bibliography will be inserted after this header.
 
 
-Producing HTML slide shows with Pandoc
-======================================
+Producing slide shows with Pandoc
+=================================
 
 You can use Pandoc to produce an HTML + javascript slide presentation
 that can be viewed via a web browser.  There are three ways to do this,
-using [S5], [DZSlides], or [Slidy].
+using [S5], [DZSlides], or [Slidy].  You can also produce a PDF slide
+show using [LaTeX beamer]: just pass the `--beamer` option to
+`markdown2pdf`.
 
 Here's the markdown source for a simple slide show, `eating.txt`:
 
@@ -1946,6 +1955,7 @@ for DZSlides.
 
 A title page is constructed automatically from the document's title
 block. Each level-one header and horizontal rule begins a new slide.
+(If beamer is used, all headers begin a new slide.)
 
 For Slidy and S5, the file produced by pandoc with the `-s/--standalone`
 option embeds a link to javascripts and CSS files, which are assumed to
@@ -2043,6 +2053,7 @@ Christopher Sawicki, Kelsey Hightower.
 [Slidy]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/
 [HTML]:  http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/
 [LaTeX]: http://www.latex-project.org/
+[LaTeX beamer]: http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/beamer
 [ConTeXt]: http://www.pragma-ade.nl/ 
 [RTF]:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format
 [DocBook XML]:  http://www.docbook.org/