Hi Derek,

In addition to Eric's response, if you wanted to have, say, text on the left side of the beamer frame and an image on the right, you can use beamer columns:

#+begin_src org
** Why do we care?
*** block                                             :B_ignoreheading:BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
    :BEAMER_col: 0.35
    :END:
+ \textcolor{green}{They are explosions!}
+ Unique location for rp-process burning
+ Flame propagation under extreme conditions
+ \alert{Constrain EOS for dense matter}
*** jim_figure                                        :B_ignoreheading:BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
    :BEAMER_col: 0.8
    :END:
#+ATTR_LaTeX: width=\textwidth
./images/jim_diagram2.png
\\ \tiny \flushright Lattimer, J.M., \textit{ApSS}, \textbf{308}, 371 (2007)
#+end_src

You can enter in the =:PROPERTIES: yourself, or you can hit =C-c C-b= on the line containing the particular block and select it as a column. You can find more information here: http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html

HTH,

Chris

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Derek Thomas <derekcthomas@gmail.com> writes:

> Eric and Chris,
>
> Thanks for your responses.
>
> Eric,
>
> I'm currently using latex directly in org, but this method doesn't
> play nicely with export to a regular tex file.

Why not? It would be helpful if you could post a minimal example of
what does not work.

> Would it be possible
> to use something similar to this?
>
> #+begin_src org
> ** A plain slide
> *** [path/to/fig]
> :PROPERTIES:
> :FIGURE_envargs:
> Figure placement options
> :END:
> #+end_src

not as such but you can do the following:

#+begin_src org
** a plain slide
#+attr_latex: width=[0.8\textwidth]
[[file:figure.png]]
#+end_src

and the figure should be included just fine.

--

Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)