From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: [org-beamer] inline slides? Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:10:01 +0000 Message-ID: <87wrz3jzqe.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> References: Reply-To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaBR4-0003wZ-Kp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:12:10 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NaBQz-0003qe-V0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:12:10 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53858 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NaBQz-0003qS-Qb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:12:05 -0500 Received: from vscane-c.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.43]:64760) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NaBQz-0006sI-Ed for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:12:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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: Austin Frank Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:38:46 -0500, Austin Frank wrote: > I have an idea that doesn't yet qualify as a feature request, more like > an idea for discussion. What do people think about the idea of adding > the capability to write inline slides, akin to the way we can currently > write inline TODO items? Interesting! I am trying to get my mind around this. It is definitely an intriguing idea, putting aside the complexities of implementation. I could see it being useful, along the lines of all the tangling examples in org-babel. Whether I would use something like this or not is difficult to ascertain. I don't need to write long documents like a thesis (any more! although my students do ;-); more importantly, I often will prepare more than one presentation based on a given project and each presentation will be substantially different enough to make it difficult to embed slides. > [...] > The application I have in mind has to do with writing my doctoral > thesis. I know that I'll be writing long chapters; I also know that > I'll have to prepare slides for my public defense. Ideally, during the > writing process I'll be able to notice a series of important points and > drop into an inline slide to jot them down for the talk. Similarly, I > could see wanting to start a section with an overview slide, but not > wanting to alter the structure of the section. Yes, this I can see. However, the type of different content you may wish to attach/embed will depend on its final purpose. That is, in terms of presentations, who will be in the audience? > Since slides are mostly just headlines with special tags and properties, > at the end of the process I could easily selectively export just the > text of the dissertation or just the embedded slides. This begs the question: maybe an "export to org based on tags" function is all that is required? And this is probably already implemented; I hesitate to suggest how or where, given my lack of awareness of all the various multitude of features of org-mode, but I can imagine that sparse trees could be part of any solution? Just some thoughts... eric