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From: Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA before \begin{document}?
Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 20:55:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvkk9haw.fsf@med.uni-goettingen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87eh04703g.fsf@ucl.ac.uk

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Thursday,  8 May 2014 at 15:38, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The above things are currently (almost, for some) impossible.  Changing
>> where the #+BEAMER_HEADER placeholder gets inserted makes them possible
>> and easy.
>
> but unfortunately would make other things more difficult.  For instance,
> I often redefine the date command (and sometimes title and author) to do
> something different.  If the header entries were placed after the use of
> theses, things would break for me.
>

Couldn't you use #+LATEX_HEADER for that sort of thing, then?

> I think the creation of an ...EXTRA directive would be better but I've
> argued for this before and have lost that argument.

I agree here.  Why not make that more transparent and
have #+LATEX_HEADER and #+LATEX_HEADER_END as well as #+BEAMER_HEADER
and #+BEAMER_HEADER_END ?

>
> You can achieve what you want by redefining \title, I would
> suggest.  Not pretty but it works.

(Isn't that true for your use case of redefining date, too?)


And last but not least:  I think the particular use case of adding a
short title to a beamer presentation is common enough to deserve proper
org mode support.

Regards,
Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-08 19:55 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
2014-05-08 15:37         ` Eric S Fraga
2014-05-08 19:55           ` Andreas Leha [this message]
     [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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