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From: Stephan Schmitt <drmabuse@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Beamer support in Org-mode
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To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
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Carsten Dominik wrote:
 >
 > On Nov 26, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Dan  wrote:
 >> ... using the heading title to set the column width feels
 >> wrong; the natural reaction is to think that that sort of metadata
 >> should be in a property.
 >
 > OK, I hear you all pull the same string, that Org-mode files should be
 > beamer presentations as they are, more or less.
 >
 > ...
 > 3. Use meta data to make headlines special, instead of mixing this
 >    stuff into the.  I first thought this is too hard - but maybe it is
 >    OK when edited with column view?  Hmm, I am only half-sold on this -
 > properties
 >    are so hard to see when you need them frequently during editing.
 >

Hi,

I would also prefer not to use headline content for formatting purposes.

Instead of introducing a new syntax for column widths, I'd rather store them as 
properties and provide dedicated functions to edit these in a convenient way.

Just my 2 cents, though.
Greetings,
	Stephan