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Margaret
Margaret

Reputation: 5929

How do I customise beamer_presentation RMarkdown layouts?

I'm only just starting to play around with RMarkdown, but I know that I will probably need to produce a PDF similar to a PowerPoint presentation as my final product, so I am using the beamer_presentation template to fiddle with.

The thing I'm currently running up against is I have no idea how to customise it with anything more intelligent than the default templates (e.g. AnnArbor, Frankfurt, etc).

For example, if I wanted to change the colour of headers, how do I do so?

With the html_document option you just add a CSS file with something like color: green under the h1 section, but it looks like Beamer doesn't support the nice friendly options...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1323

Answers (1)

Martin C. Arnold
Martin C. Arnold

Reputation: 9668

As You noticed, the css argument cannot be used wit output: beamer_presentation

(Have a look at the markdown reference for more on YAML options)

Instead, You can provide a custom Latex-preamble were You modify properties of the presentation - just as in a Latex document with \documentclass{beamer}:

---
title: "Awesome Title"
author: "Awesome Author"
date: "9/29/2017"
output: 
  beamer_presentation:
    includes:
      in_header: preamble.tex
---

For example set

\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=green}

in preamble.tex to modify the header color.

Upvotes: 1

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