From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Using allowframebreaks in org-beamer Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:39:43 +0000 Message-ID: <87li0tx5sg.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <877gced3mx.fsf@planetbarr.com> <87fvr2cqq4.fsf@gmx.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56443) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgBOE-0007G7-WB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:40:17 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgBO9-00032c-3e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:40:10 -0500 Received: from va3outboundsmtppool2.messaging.microsoft.com ([157.55.133.164]:51487 helo=VA3EHSNDR001.bigfish.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgBO8-0002o6-VQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:40:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Stephen J. Barr's message of "Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:22:04 -0800") 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Barr" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Rasmus "Stephen J. Barr" writes: > I agree with the "less stuff" part. The first pass in my slides is for > content, second pass is for formatting :-). For now, I did manual division > of the sides. I am using both org-beamer and org-reveal ( > https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal) and ideally they would have optimized > (and possibly different) slide breaks. E.g. perhaps beamer breaks 9 > elements into 3 3-elements slides whereas reveal breaks into 2 slides, one > with 5 elements and one of 4 elements. > > I'll look around for the previous post but in the mean time I think I will > stick with method 0. To summarise the previous post (i.e. from the thread I started for this bug), all you have to do is simply include the following on any slide for which you want frame breaks: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * A long "frame" with breaks :PROPERTIES: :BEAMER_opt: allowframebreaks,label= :END: --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Method 0 is, in principle, desirable, but I actually find that beamer does a really nice job on automatic frame breaks in most cases and it makes writing some types of presentations much easier! An example, from my own usage, is the solution to some example problem when teaching. I can simply write down all the steps, e.g. as an enumerated list, and let beamer worry about the breaks. Using automatic frame breaks, for me, is just the obvious extension of org (or LaTeX): let me worry about the content and let the system worry about the formatting! >From LyX: "what you see is what you mean" :-) -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.2.2-180-g71152d