In fact, you can use Pandoc along side that feature of LaTeX to go straight from Markdown to PDF slides: pandoc slides.md -t beamer -o slides.pdf It works

In fact, you can use Pandoc along side that feature of LaTeX to go straight from Markdown to PDF slides: pandoc slides.md -t beamer -o slides.pdf It works pretty effortlessly, especially when you pair it with a set of starter files like can be found in this project[1]. https://github.com/jez/pandoc-starter https://github.com/jez/pandoc-starter