From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Re: Org-beamer problems Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:52:21 +0000 Message-ID: <87hbd46jp6.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87wrm06ebv.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43838 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfrTd-0000yY-Q7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:10:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfrTc-0008OC-Cy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:10:49 -0500 Received: from vscani-d2.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.133]:44801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfrTc-0008O6-6n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:10:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Bill Moran's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:34:13 +0000 (UTC)") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Bill Moran Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Bill Moran writes: > HI Eric, John, Jeff and Birch > > > Eric S Fraga ucl.ac.uk> writes: > >> >> My immediate response would be to ask why you aren't using \maketitle >> given that the command is beamer-aware? That is, \maketitle will create [...] > Let me also say that my aim was to arrive at an understanding of how to use > org-mode for slide creation - since I do a lot of that - rather than to compose > a specific set of slides. I realise that I could use direct latex code to solve > the problems but that wasn't the point of the exercise. Yes, sorry, I didn't write my response very well at all. I wasn't implying that beamer could not do what you wanted, only that you could resort to latex if you definitely wanted to have a very specific solution. My point was that beamer generates \maketitle and that this works just fine (for me) in beamer so that there is no need to use the latex construct I wrote which is what you implied you were using in latex directly. [...] > To keep this email as brief as possible, let's take this snippet (verbatim) of > an example from Eric: [...] > When I do "C-c C-e p" to create the pdf file I get 3 slides. The first is a > title page but has no title - only the date. The second is an outline (toc) > slide as expected and the third is again as expected except that @important@ is > not rendered as \alert{important}. but this all works for me. As others have said, upgrade your org version (which *is* rather old unfortunately). -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.223.g71650)