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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Exporting to beamerposter
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:00:42 +0100
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On Wednesday,  5 Aug 2015 at 20:26, Titus von der Malsburg wrote:
> Thank you, Eric!  I had to add ignoreheading to the top-level heading
> because the title of the poster is handled via the #+TITLE attribute,
> but otherwise it works nicely.  It=E2=80=99s a little unfortunate that the
> wrap-all heading is needed because it doesn=E2=80=99t serve a purpose.  I=
 tried
> a couple of things to get rid of it but nothing worked because top-level
> elements are translated to frames and each frame starts a new page,
> which we don=E2=80=99t want on a poster.
>
> For more fancy layouts, one has to be a little creative and sprinkle the
> document generously with dummy headings with ignoreheadings-attribute to
> make the LaTeX come out correctly but I think I=E2=80=99m getting the han=
g of
> it.

Glad it worked.

Although it may seem annoying, at first, to have extra headings, they
can actually be quite useful.  I often have "ignored" headings to group
my text for ease in navigation and editing.

> I=E2=80=99ll publish the poster on Gist when I=E2=80=99m finished.  Hopef=
ully, that will
> make it easier for other people to get started with posters in org.

That would be great.  You might also like to add it to Worg.

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