Support pdfpc notes

[paulmenzel]

pdfpc is GTK-based presentation viewer which uses Keynote-like multi-monitor output to provide meta information to the speaker during the presentation.

It supports notes for LaTeX beamer: “Support for notes, both as text and on slides (as generated by LaTeX beamer)”

You can add notes in pdfpc, but you can also edit the text file. That has the same name as the PDF but with the suffix pdfpc. The parser can be read but the format looks like below. You have a section [notes], and then the slide number is prefixed by ### . The notes go below.

[notes]
### 3
uinaetudniaedtndaien
uniaedn
### 5
uniaedtunaid
### 7
undiaenudtiaendutnaie
unidaenu
uinade

It be great, if the Pandoc notes could be converted to that format.

[mb21]

If I understand correctly, this output would be in addition to the PDF file pandoc produces.

The content for that would be the pandoc speaker notes?

I guess it's something worth thinking about, but you can definitely write a pandoc filter already that does this.

[allefeld]

I don't know pdfpc, but if it supports notes as generated by beamer, wouldn't it make more sense to write beamer's \note{} command to the beamer input?

As an added benefit, the LaTeX template could define

\newcommand{\note}[1]{\marginpar{#1}}

so that notes are supported for the latex writer, too.