From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA before \begin{document}?
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:49:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140508144951.GA20211@chitra.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a9asie5u.fsf@somewhere.org>
On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 03:38:21PM +0200, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 07:26:26PM -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
>
> > I think I looked into this sometime back and I don't think there was a
> > nice resolution (as evidenced by Seb's links). That said, I vaguely
> > recall a discussion on this 1 and half to 2 years back (that would be
> > the old exporter of course). I think supporting this as a feature was
> > bypassed since this is very much LaTeX specific.
>
> While I think that LaTeX should be treated as a first-class backend (and
> not just 1 out of 10 or so), I'm not asking for something new to be
> added: just that #+BEAMER_HEADER is inserted before
> the \begin{document} -- hence *after* things like \title, \author, \date,
> and \usetheme.
>
> Right now, in an Org Beamer document, we can add specific code via
> 3 different types of call (with example data):
>
> - #+LaTeX_HEADER: \institute[short name]{Full name}
> - #+LaTeX_HEADER_EXTRA: \usepackage{lxfonts}
> - #+BEAMER_HEADER: \setbeamercolor{structure}{fg=craneblue}
>
> If we simply allow the placeholder for #+BEAMER_HEADER to be somewhere
> else (right before \begin{document}) than where it currently is, it will
> allow one to:
>
> - add a short title of the document for the footer
> - add a short author name for the footer (see AnnArbor)
> - add a short date version (for example, "May 2014" instead of the full
> "8 May 2014")
> - customize some colors of the Beamer themes
> - and many other things...
>
> The above things are currently (almost, for some) impossible. Changing
> where the #+BEAMER_HEADER placeholder gets inserted makes them possible
> and easy.
You have good arguments. Maybe it should be reconsidered.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-08 14:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-07 19:01 Insert #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA before \begin{document}? Sebastien Vauban
2014-05-07 22:24 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-07 23:26 ` Nick Dokos
2014-05-08 1:38 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-05-08 13:38 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-05-08 14:49 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2014-05-08 15:37 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-05-08 19:55 ` Andreas Leha
[not found] ` <87eh04703g.fsf-hclig2XLE9Zaa/9Udqfwiw@public.gmane.org>
2014-05-21 17:59 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-06-15 20:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
[not found] ` <871tuqndck.fsf-Gpy5sJQTEQHwkn9pgDnJRVAUjnlXr6A1@public.gmane.org>
2014-06-16 13:42 ` Sebastien Vauban
2014-06-16 14:37 ` Nick Dokos
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