Re: Beamer support in Org-mode

From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Beamer support in Org-mode
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:00:23 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <78CCC120-4A39-4A85-A659-CCDC71EF5CEA@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B215ECD.3070703@comcast.net>

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Hi Mark,

On Dec 10, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Mark Elston wrote:

> I have been following this discussion with some interest as it may
> provide the basis for something I am interested in doing as well.
> I hope my discussion doesn't muddy the waters too much...
>
> Nick Dokos wrote:
>> Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> At Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:09:33 +0100,
>>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>> I still don't have any better ideas than this to represent notes
>>>> in Org for beamer presentations.  Just writing \noe{...} as you
>>>> suggest will certainly work - the disadvantage is that this does
>>>> not make a lot of sense when exporting to other formats.
>>>>
>>>> One option would be to turn all those notes into footnotes
>>>> for other export.....
>>>>
>>>> I'd really be interested to get more input on this issue.
>>>>
>>>> - Carsten
>>>>
>>> Maybe it is better to simple ignore notes when exporting to other  
>>> formats.
>>>
>>> For me notes in beamer are useful only to give me an idea of what  
>>> I intend to
>>> talk about in the presentation and help me training for the  
>>> presentation. They
>>> are not really "part of the final exported document" and sometimes  
>>> I put a lot
>>> of information in them (possible in a different language from the
>>> presentation).
>>>
>>> Also, the contents in notes can be anything such as a table or a  
>>> figure. This
>>> obviously would result in an error if or if org tried to put them  
>>> into a
>>> footnote when exporting to other formats.
>>>
>>> Therefore, the question is has anyone here any interest in notes  
>>> when exporting
>>> to other formats or do they only make sense when exporting to  
>>> beamer?
>>>
>
> My case is similar.  I teach a class each week and, so far, have  
> created
> two documents; a set of handouts and my notes for teaching.  Generally
> these documents start from the same original and I modify and expand  
> the
> notes I use for teaching while leaving the handouts a smaller doc for
> those in the class to take their own notes from.
>
> I don't use beamer as the handouts tend to be 6-8 pages of 'normal'  
> text
> as it is and my teaching notes are usually far larger.  I don't want  
> to
> manipulate a stack of paper while teaching.
>
>> For me, notes are rather important: in addition to reminding me  
>> what to
>> say, they are essentially a second level to the presentation (and I
>> always include them in any handouts). Somebody who has a vague  
>> interest
>> in the subject can look at the slides. If they want to go into it a  
>> bit
>> deeper, they can look at the notes.
>
> My case is similar but I don't 'expose' my teaching notes to the
> students for a variety of reasons.
>
>> ...
>> So unless somebody comes up with a really good idea, delaying any
>> org-specific implementation might be the best way forward: it would  
>> save
>> wear-and-tear on Carsten, allow the rest of us to catch up and gather
>> some experience and perhaps come up with better ideas on how to  
>> handle
>> this.
>> Nick
>
> I guess my request is similar to what has been discussed above in  
> that I
> would *very* much like to maintain handouts and teaching material in  
> the
> same file and then export it to two different files as necessary.   
> This
> would make my job a lot easier to manage.  I could decide which  
> tables,
> figures, text, etc are common to both docs and which are just for me  
> and
> everything happens automatically behind the scenes.
>
> Beamer output is not critical for me (or even necessarily desired)  
> right
> now but I would like a way of marking some text for 'limited' export.
> Using a special notation is not a problem if it gives me the ability  
> to
> maintain a single document that I can export to two different LaTeX/ 
> PDF
> docs.
>
> Mark

I use Org-babel to accomplish this.  Its literate programming facility  
lets you define a block of text and re-use it wherever you like.  You  
can "tangle" as many .tex files as you want from a single Org-mode  
document.

You can find some examples here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/org-babel-uses.php

HTH,
Tom

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