For what it's worth on the topic of beamer outlines, I recently created a
presentation and wanted the Outline to re-appear before every section.
Having this at the top of the document (right after all the #+options stuff)
worked great:

-----
\AtBeginSection[]{
\begin{frame}<beamer>
\frametitle{Outline}
\tableofcontents[currentsection]
\end{frame}}
-----

I think it's pretty cool, especially if there are many frames between parts.
Perhaps this can be useful to someone looking into various methods for using
outlines in Beamer? Toggle #+options: toc:t and toc:nil to either have the
full outline appear at the beginning or only have the outline with the
highlighted upcoming section visible.


John

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> aditya siram <aditya.siram@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am wondering how to get an outline in an org-beamer presentation.
> > Currently I have a structure that looks like:
> >
> > #+TITLE: My Title
> > #+AUTHOR: Me
> > #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> > #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
> > #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
> > #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %10BEAMER_env(Env) %10BEAMER_envargs(Env Args)
> > %4BEAMER_col(Col) %8BEAMER_extra(Extra)
> > * Presentation
> > ** Slide 1
> > ** Slide 2
> > ** Slide 3
> > ** Slide 4 ...
> >
> > The outline slide contains only "Presentation". Is there someway to
> > break up the presentation so that slides 1 & 2 are a sub-topic and 3 &
> > 4 are another?
>
> Hi deech,
>
> Set BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL to 3 and adjust outline levels as below.
>
> #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 3
> #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %10BEAMER_env(Env) %10BEAMER_envargs(Env Args)
> %4BEAMER_col(Col) %8BEAMER_extra(Extra)
> * Presentation
> ** Topic 1
> *** Slide 1
> *** Slide 2
> ** Topic 2
> *** Slide 3
> *** Slide 4
>
> Dan
>
> p.s. Thanks very much Carsten and Eric F. for org-beamer. I gave my
> first org-beamer presentation yesterday.
>
>
> > -deech
> >
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