Markdown->Pandoc-> reveal.js includes some basic guides on how to have a background image applied to the slides.

It would help enormously with company policy if I could include the artwork which is in the Powerpoint Templates.

nevermind! I didn't know what I was talking about.

$ cd book-writeup/src
$ make

pandoc --template template.tex -f markdown+tex_math_single_backslash -t latex  --pdf-engine=xelatex -o sample.pdf ./00-meta.md ./chapters/01-overview.md ./chapters/00-dedication.md
Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: Command `\Bbbk' already defined.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.261 ...ol{\Bbbk}           {\mathord}{AMSb}{"7C}

make: *** [Makefile:48: sample.pdf] Error 43

If I delete amssymb from the line \usepackage{amssymb,amsmath} fix the problem.
But maybe is not the correct solution.

I have the following yaml inside my md file. producing the pdf does not generate an error or anything else for the fonts.

---
documentclass: tufte-handout
title: "Summary Chapter 11: Art and Telematics"
author: foo
date: \today
fontsize: 12pt
# Comment or change these if you don't have these fonts installed
mainfont: IBM Plex Mono Regular
monofont: IBM Plex Mono Regular
newtxmathoptions:
- cmintegrals
- cmbraces
colorlinks: true
linkcolor: RoyalBlue
urlcolor: RoyalBlue
---

The tufte-handout class does not work fully out of the box for Windows 10. I am on MikTex 2.9, pandoc 2.1.1, and the standard Windows PowerShell without the bash functionalities.

The main issue for me was that the fonts specified in the markdown file wasn't applied to the output. Solution I found:

1. Add the following lines to template.tex, after line 31:
   % Set up the spacing using fontspec features \renewcommand\allcapsspacing[1]{{\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=15}#1}} \renewcommand\smallcapsspacing[1]{{\addfontfeature{LetterSpace=10}#1}}
2. Instead of pdflatex, use xelatex:
   pandoc -f markdown+tex_math_single_backslash -t latex --pdf-engine=xelatex -o sample.pdf --template template.tex sample.md

Opening this issue to see what might be the best way to incorporate this solution into the code, or at least document here how I solved it. This is where I found the solution tex code.