Re: Re: Org-beamer problems

From: Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com>
To: Bill Moran <bill1moran@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Org-beamer problems
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:02:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=9j-8t_yGvA3veY5cYjAHvWShbMeXZqTjWCKDU@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110119T214341-428@post.gmane.org>

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Hi Bill,

I would try upgrading to a newer version of =org-mode= - a lot of things
have been improved since the writing of the version you have.  By default,
in the newer versions, the \maketitle command should be added to the
beginning of your .tex file automatically.  Upgrade and see if this fixes
things.

Chris

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Bill Moran <bill1moran@gmail.com> wrote:

> HI Eric, John, Jeff and Birch
>
>
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga <at> ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
> >
> > My immediate response would be to ask why you aren't using \maketitle
> > given that the command is beamer-aware?  That is, \maketitle will create
> > a title page whose format is defined by the beamer theme you have
> > selected.  Otherwise, you could always customise
> > =org-export-latex-title-command= to nothing and use direct latex code to
> > do what you want:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > #+begin_latex
> > \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame}
> > #+end_latex
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > I've not tried this.
> >
> > > 2. \alert command does not work - even with the additions to .emacs
> > > suggested here:
> > >  http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org/msg21507.html
> > > (And there are no errors in running the .emacs file)
> > > Always the @ symbol appears in the latex created from org as @.
> >
> > Can you tell us exactly what you have done to customise the relevant
> > variables and where you have done these customisations?  Difficult to
> > help without this information unfortunately.  While we're at it, org and
> > emacs version information is also helpful.
> >
>
> >
>
>
>
> Thanks for all of your responses and for taking the time to help me. I'll
> try to
> answer your questions. As far as possible I  use the "stock" ubuntu
> (maverick -
> 10.10) repositories for emacs and its associated software. So I'm using
> emacs
> 23.1.1 and org-mode 6.36c. The version of beamer I'm using, as described in
> the
> repositories, is latex-beamer 3.07-2ubuntu1. I am aware  that there are
> more
> recent versions available  - particularly of org-mode - but was trying to
> keep
> things simple.
>
> Let me also say that my aim was to arrive at an understanding of  how to
> use
> org-mode for slide creation - since I do a lot of that - rather than to
> compose
> a specific set of slides. I realise that I could use direct latex code to
> solve
> the problems but that wasn't the point of the exercise.
>
> I've read more since I sent the email and now realise that the issues I
> brought
> up have been discussed earlier and where I can I've tried to use the
> proposed
> solutions. In particular I have this in my .emacs:
>
>
> (setq org-emphasis-alist (quote (("*" bold "<b>" "</b>")
>                                 ("/" italic "<i>" "</i>")
>                                 ("_" underline "<span
> style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">" "</span>")
>                                 ("=" org-code "<code>" "</code>" verbatim)
>                                 ("~" org-verbatim "<code>" "</code>"
> verbatim)
>                                 ("+" (:strike-through t) "<del>" "</del>")
>                                 ("@" org-warning "<b>" "</b>")))
>      org-export-latex-emphasis-alist (quote
>                                       (("*" "\\textbf{%s}" nil)
>                                        ("/" "\\emph{%s}" nil)
>                                        ("_" "\\underline{%s}" nil)
>                                        ("+" "\\texttt{%s}" nil)
>                                        ("=" "\\verb=%s=" nil)
>                                        ("~" "\\verb~%s~" t)
>                                        ("@" "\\alert{%s}" nil)))
>      )
>
> from a solution to the @ problem proposed by Eric somewhere. And I
> understand
> that I can use \maketitle normally to produce a title page in beamer - just
> tried on a hand-crafted (in emacs)  latex-beamer file using my set up.
>
> To keep this email as brief as possible, let's take this snippet (verbatim)
> of
> an  example from Eric:
>
> ----------------------------------start-----------------------------------
> #+TITLE:     Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode
> #+AUTHOR:    Eric S Fraga
> #+EMAIL:     e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk
> #+DATE:      2010-03-30 Tue
> #+DESCRIPTION:
> #+KEYWORDS:
> #+LANGUAGE:  en
> #+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
> #+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
> #+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0
> path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
> #+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
> #+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
> #+LINK_UP:
> #+LINK_HOME:
>
> #+startup: oddeven
>
> #+startup: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger]
> #+latex_header: \mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
> #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
>
> #+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %13BEAMER_env(Env) %6BEAMER_envargs(Args)
> %4BEAMER_col(Col)
> %7BEAMER_extra(Extra)
>
> * Methodology
>
> ** A simple slide
> This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
> - the first, very @important@, point!
> - the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
>  translates to the Beamer specific /alert/ command for highlighting
>  text.
> The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
> include sub-lists.
> ---------------------------end----------------------------------------
>
> When I do "C-c C-e p" to create the pdf file I get 3 slides. The first is a
> title page but has no title - only the date. The second is an outline (toc)
> slide as expected and the third is again as expected except that
> @important@ is
> not rendered as \alert{important}.
>
>
> The latex created  by "C-c C-e l" is
>
> ---------------------------start----------------------------------------
> % Created 2011-01-20 Thu 08:18
> \documentclass[bigger]{beamer}
>
>      \mode<{{{beamermode}}}>
>
>      \usetheme{{{{beamertheme}}}}
>
>      \usecolortheme{{{{beamercolortheme}}}}
>
>      \beamertemplateballitem
>
>      \setbeameroption{show notes}
>      \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
>
>      \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
>      \usepackage{hyperref}
>
>      \usepackage{color}
>      \usepackage{listings}
>      \lstset{numbers=none,language=[ISO]C++,tabsize=4,
>  frame=single,
>  basicstyle=\small,
>  showspaces=false,showstringspaces=false,
>  showtabs=false,
>  keywordstyle=\color{blue}\bfseries,
>  commentstyle=\color{red},
>  }
>
>      \usepackage{verbatim}
>
>      \institute{{{{beamerinstitute}}}}
>
>       \subject{{{{beamersubject}}}}
>
> \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{fixltx2e}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{longtable}
> \usepackage{float}
> \usepackage{wrapfig}
> \usepackage{soul}
> \usepackage{t1enc}
> \usepackage{textcomp}
> \usepackage{marvosym}
> \usepackage{wasysym}
> \usepackage{latexsym}
> \usepackage{amssymb}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \tolerance=1000
> \mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
> \providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}}
>
> \title{Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode}
> \author{Eric S Fraga}
> \date{2010-03-30 Tue}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \maketitle
>
> \begin{frame}
> \frametitle{Outline}
> \setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
> \tableofcontents
> \end{frame}
>
>
>
>
> \section{Methodology}
> \label{sec-1}
> \begin{frame}[fragile]\frametitle{A simple slide}
> \label{sec-1_1}
>
> This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
> \begin{itemize}
> \item the first, very @important@, point!
> \item the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
>  translates to the Beamer specific \emph{alert} command for highlighting
>  text.
> \end{itemize}
>
> The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
> include sub-lists.
> \end{frame}
>
> \end{document}
> ----------------------------------end-----------------------------------
>
> and running pdflatex on this produces an identical result to "C-c C-e p" on
> the
> org file - as it should.
>
>
>
> I'm not sure I've answered all of your questions but perhaps this is enough
> to
> suggest a solution or refine the questions.
>
> Many thanks for your time!
>
> Bill
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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