Can not find data file when compiling to beamer

[YourPsychiatrist]

When compiling my markdown file to pdf via latex, everything seems to be working fine. However, when I specify beamer as output format, pandoc complains about missing data files. I hope I am not at fault here; It would be great if you added slides support!

Could not find data file templates/eisvogel.beamer is what it says. I mean I obviously just have the eisvogel.latex in the template directory but adding an extra copy with .beamer as extension also doesn't work.

[Wandmalfarbe]

I think you have an old version of pandoc installed. The Beamer template and the regular LaTeX template were merged with issue jgm/pandoc#3878. Can you show me the output of pandoc --version.

[YourPsychiatrist]

I built the (at the time) lates release from source so I am running pandoc 2.7.2

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 2.7.2
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.5.4, texmath 0.11.2.2, skylighting 0.7.7

[Wandmalfarbe]

I opened an issue in the pandoc issue tracker: jgm/pandoc#5585. When you specify the template with the extension directly it should use the correct template file:

pandoc --from markdown --to beamer document.md --template eisvogel.latex --o document.pdf

Unfortunately an arror occurs when generating the beamer PDF. I filed a separate Issue here: #99