From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josiah Schwab Subject: Re: Modifying the Beamer Exporter Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:53:33 -0700 Message-ID: <87r4fmvtwy.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87txkivygu.fsf@gmail.com> <87vc4ygfhy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usfg6-0000YK-Kz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:53:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usfg5-0002HU-KB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:53:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-x233.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c03::233]:39692) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usfg5-0002HN-Eg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:53:57 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f51.google.com with SMTP id lf11so2874058pab.24 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:53:56 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87vc4ygfhy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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: Eric S Fraga Cc: emacs-orgmode > Maybe, maybe not. Difficult to say unless you give us a better idea of > what kind of changes you plan on making. I'm a little hazy, partially because my ideas seem to change quickly as I learn more. One of the more ambitious things that I'd like to do is to be able to associate BibTeX references with a headlines in a way such that they are collected at the level of the frame-headline and then rendered uniformly in the page footers. > In general, I find it sufficient to add a little bit of LaTeX code to my > org files for most customisations or beamer specific commands. The > great thing about org is that it is easy to write LaTeX directly when > you need it. It's only if you wish to address different export targets > that things become more complicated, but that's not what you are doing. > Maybe gives us some idea of what it is you cannot do with ox-beamer and > we can suggest whether what you intend to do is reasonable or not. At least so far, it's no so much a question of "can't", as a matter of style. #+AUTHOR: Josiah \\ \small with Alice & Bob vs #+AUTHOR: Josiah #+COLLABORATORS: Alice & Bob Another example would be the use of a subtitle. #+LATEX_HEADER: \subtitle{An Illustrative Example} vs #+SUBTITLE: An Illustrative Example I have a preference for the "cleaner" version and wanted to implement it in a way that it likely to age well as org development progresses. Best, Josiah