Beamer presentation - Left to right direction and links in ToC doesn't work properly for Persian text

Question

I'm using beamer presentation with markdown and pandoc. I have a markdown file like this:

---
lang: fa
dir: rtl
title: "عنوان ارائه"
author: "نام دانشجو"
date: "تاریخ"
institute: "نام دانشگاه"
theme: "metropolis"
---

# فهرست

1. [شماره ۱](#شماره-۱)
2. [شماره ۲](#شماره-۲)


# شماره ۱
متنی در مورد شماره ۱

# شماره ۲
متنی در مورد شماره ۲

And I'm trying to convert it to PDF, using this command:

pandoc pres.md -t beamer -o pres.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex -V mainfont="Sahel"

But there are two problems.

1. Not everything goes RTL.

As you can see, the author, date, and institute elements are in the correct direction, but the title isn't. Also, list elements in Table of Contents aren't in the right direction:

But I thought specifying dir: rtl would solve that. It does make a change when I add dir: rtl, but it's not working as expected.

2. Links in Table of Contents don't work

In the English version of the same markdown file, everything works. But when I change it to Persian, links don't work. And when I open the PDF file with mupdf, the moment I change the page to ToC, mupdf gives out this warning:

warning: undefined link destination
warning: ... repeated 2 times...

How can I fix these issues?

Answer 1

Edit your code as:

---
lang: "fa"
dir: "rtl"
title: "عنوان ارائه"
author: "نام دانشجو"
date: "تاریخ"
institute: "نام دانشگاه"
theme: "metropolis"
header-includes: "\\raggedleft"
---

# فهرست
\raggedleft
۱. [شماره ۱](#شماره-۱)

\raggedleft
۲. [شماره ۲](#شماره-۲)


# شماره ۱
متنی در مورد شماره ۱

# شماره ۲
متنی در مورد شماره ۲

Output: Links in Table of Contents do work. Pdf

Suggestion: beamer example and template on @Tex_Ahmadi Telegram channel .