From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Modifying the Beamer Exporter Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:14:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87vc4ygfhy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <87txkivygu.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38040) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usf3j-000558-4K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:14:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usf3h-0005qi-Bl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:14:19 -0400 Received: from co1ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com ([216.32.180.184]:38893 helo=co1outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Usf3h-0005qD-3D for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:14:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87txkivygu.fsf@gmail.com> (Josiah Schwab's message of "Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:15:13 -0700") 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: Josiah Schwab Cc: emacs-orgmode Josiah Schwab writes: > Hi All, > > I am just starting to dig into using the new exporter for generating > beamer presentations. > > I want to include my collaborators in the header of each org file just > as I would authors, that is by including a line like > > #+COLLABORATORS: Alice & Bob > > I've found some limited documentation on modifying the exporter (manual > section 12.3) and taken a look at ox.el, ox-latex.el, ox-beamer.el, etc. > > What I did was: > + Create a new backend derived from the beamer one > + add COLLABORATORS to its options-alist > + set the template (in translate-alist) to one handling collaborators > > This works, but before I continued on making other modifications (in a > similar vein), I wanted to check in with people with a higher level > understanding. > > Does this sound like a reasonable approach? Maybe, maybe not. Difficult to say unless you give us a better idea of what kind of changes you plan on making. 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. -- : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.0.3-239-gd316ec