From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Feature request: simplify usage of special blocks (for beamer) Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2018 18:28:35 +0000 Message-ID: <87a7lpxfsc.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42968) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTA0Q-0004dx-9X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:28:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTA0N-0002MI-4b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:28:42 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-x32a.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::32a]:52440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTA0M-0002KM-VD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 13:28:39 -0500 Received: by mail-wm1-x32a.google.com with SMTP id r11-v6so1978178wmb.2 for ; Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10:28:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Carlos Pita's message of "Sat, 1 Dec 2018 13:24:20 -0300") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Carlos Pita Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Saturday, 1 Dec 2018 at 13:24, Carlos Pita wrote: > Now, there are special blocks [1] also, and it's a pity they are not [...] > So my request would be: > > 1. Allow for special blocks to take an :options argument. Although I agree that this would be nice, I imagine the difficulty would be that it would be difficult to cater for multiple backends. > 2. Mention the possibility of using special blocks to represent beamer > blocks, be it in the manual or in the tutorial. Given that beamer inherits everything that the LaTeX exporter supports, is the special blocks section in the LaTeX exporter documentation not already enough? -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.14-1035-gfeb442