Pandoc: Beamer frame attributes (standout in metropolis theme)

[jabranham]

Currently we can pass frame attributes to beamer like so:

# Frame title {.plain}

To get a plain frame. However, pandoc does not pass through just any property - in particular, it is not currently possible to use the standout option from the metropolis theme. Is it possible to pass through other frame attributes?

Related issue on the metropolis theme repo:
https://github.com/matze/mtheme/issues/205

[herculosh]

Hello everyone

I felt that this implementation of Standout didn't work properly, I think it belongs to metropolis?

For example, if I translate the following code from Markdown to beamer (. tex)

## Standout frame {.standout}

Standout (works as expected)


## Should be a normal one

but still a standout Frame. 

Then I get the following text output.

\begin{frame}[fragile,standout]{%
\protect\hypertarget{standout-frame}{%
Standout frame}}

Standout (works as expected)

\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile]{%
\protect\hypertarget{should-be-a-normal-one}{%
Should be a normal one}}

but still a standout Frame.

\end{frame}

In the end it look like this in PDF.

Did I do something wrong?

Thanks in Advance.

[scottmartincampbell]

I have the same problem, using pandoc 2.1.3 and the most recent version of metropolis. Herculosh, did you solve this?

[innomadic]

I have the same problem as @herculosh . Is there a manual work around for this? Does a new issue need to be created?

[jgm]

scottmartincampbell [e-mail] writes:

I have the same problem, using pandoc 2.1.3 and the most recent version of metropolis. Herculosh, did you solve this?

pandoc 2.5 is the latest release. Why don't you try
that?

[innomadic]

scottmartincampbell [e-mail] writes:
I have the same problem, using pandoc 2.1.3 and the most recent version of metropolis. Herculosh, did you solve this?
pandoc 2.5 is the latest release. Why don't you try that?

FYI I am using Pandoc 2.5 and just came across this problem yesterday. (BTW thanks for this amazing piece of software!)

[jgm]

Reopening! Can someone look at the latex source pandoc produces for this input and say how it should be changed to get it to work?

[malbarbo]

Removing ignorenonframetext beamer option in the template fix the problem.

[purpleKarrot]

I work around this issue like this:

title: ...
subtitle: ...
author: ...
institute: ...
date: \today
header-includes:
 - '\usetheme{metropolis}'
 - '\makeatletter'
 - '\beamer@ignorenonframefalse'
 - '\makeatother'
---

## Standout frame {.standout}
Standout (works as expected)

## Normal frame
Normal (works as expected)

[jgm]

Interesting that \beamer@ignorenonframefalse fixes the problem...but why?
In general, we use ignorenonframetext; is there an explanation of why this breaks standout?
Also, does standout break in this way just on this one theme, or in general?