From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Jeffrey Barr Subject: Re: Using allowframebreaks in org-beamer Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:35:48 -0800 Message-ID: <87zjp9b3cb.fsf@uw.edu> References: <877gced3mx.fsf@planetbarr.com> <87fvr2cqq4.fsf@gmx.us> <87li0tx5sg.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38698) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgNUV-0003ei-8y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:35:31 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgNUQ-0003oy-DT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:35:27 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:40864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VgNUQ-0003mm-3o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:35:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <87li0tx5sg.fsf@pinto.chemeng.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@gnu.org, Rasmus Thank you for the clarification Eric. That did exactly what I wanted it to! Best, Stephen e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk writes: > "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" :-)