Bullet Points R Markdown

[brianhfield]

I am trying to add bullet points to a slide in markdown.
The following "should" work but instead of a bullet point, I am getting a dash.
Any thoughts?

---
title: "NA"
author: "NA"
date: "February, 2020"
output:
  powerpoint_presentation:
    reference_doc: "template.pptx"
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  echo = FALSE,
  message = FALSE,
  warning = FALSE,
  fig.width = 13,
  fig.height = 7
  )

## Key Observations

* unordered list

[brianhfield]

Renders like this:

[joels]

I created a powerpoint reference doc with the following bullet styles:

Then I compiled the following Rmarkdown document:

---
output:
  powerpoint_presentation:
    reference_doc: "template.pptx"
---

# Slide with Bullets
- Level 1
  - Level 2
- Level 1
  - Level 2
    - Level 3
- Level 1

And here's what the output powerpoint slide looked like:

Note that the "Level 1" bullet in the rendered document is formatted as a level two bullet, both in its position on the page and the bullet style from template.pptx. The other rendered bullet styles are similarly shifted by one level. There's an open issue related to this on the pandoc development site.

It looks like you may have to highlight the bullets in the rendered powerpoint document and press shift-tab to move them up one level. When I do this, I get the desired formatting and bullet style.

[brianhfield]

Thanks @joels - can you share that powerpoint reference doc on github? I'd like to take a look at that set up on the bullet points.

Thanks!

[joels]

Here's a link to the (very basic) Powerpoint reference file I used for this example:

GitHub - eipi10/hostSomeFiles

The file is template.pptx.