Markstat having trouble creating slides.

[Andy Grogan-Kaylor]

German Rodriguez I am using the excellent and very useful markstat. markstat works fine when I try to create an HTML or Word doc.

markstat using index.stmd, bundle // HTML

markstat using index.stmd, docx // Word

However, markstat produces the following error when I try to create slides:

markstat using index.stmd, slides(santiago+) bundle // slides

Running Pandoc
C:\Users\agrogan\AppData\Local\Pandoc\pandoc.exe
file index.pdx not found

I have searched Statalist for ideas, but am not finding a solution that seems to resolve the error. Any advice would be appreciated.

[German Rodriguez]

Hi Andy Grogan-Kaylor. The error message suggests that Pandoc had trouble processing the Markdown. Have you tried running the example on the website using deck.stmd? If that works, there may be an issue with your script, as slides use a few special conventions. Hard to tell without more information.

You could run markstat again with the option keep(md) and then run Pandoc on the command line, try c:\Users\agrogan\AppData\Local\Pandoc\pandoc.exe index.md -t s5 -s -o index.html. To use the Santiago theme specify where the theme is stored by adding -V s5-url=c:/ado/plus/m/s5/santiago.

Hope this will help.

[Emanuel Agu]

Hi Andy Grogan-Kaylor, check that -markstat- is pointed to the Pandoc executable, for example, whereis pandoc "C:\Program Files\Pandoc\pandoc.exe". Hope this helps!

[Andy Grogan-Kaylor]

Thank you Emanuel Agu the problem did seem to resolve when I reinstalled pandoc, and now all formats render correctly!