Thanks Dan and Juan.


So far everything has seemed to work, though a few odds and ends occurred --
I'm going to try moving to the end of the file and see if that helps. I
think I had to remove the headline, C-c C-c to get a modified option to
"take" and then could re-add the headline. I might be wrong about needing to
do that. I'll fiddle some more. Thanks for the #+setupfile tip!

John

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to "fold" the preamble (#+latex_header, #+options, etc.)
> > under a first header? Mine get rather long, especially for Beamer
> documents.
> >
> > I just attempted it and it appears to work, but I wanted to know if
> anyone
> > else has tried this and succeeded or if there are any things to watch out
> > for.
>
> Hi John,
>
> I do this rotutinely without problems. I put all my #+ lines under a
> heading named something like "Org config" and tagged with :noexport:. I
> put it at the end of the file, where it is out of the way.
>
> In fact I will stick my neck out and suggest that that should be the
> norm for Worg files; in my opinion it is very ugly to start off a file
> with a mass of technical configuration lines starting #+. The title,
> author and date should be there; not most of the other stuff. Org is
> about focusing on content.
>
> However,
>
> >
> > Currently I have:
> >
> > -------
> > * Preamble                        :noexport:
> > #+latex_class: beamer
> > #+author: John Hendy
> > #+date: \today
> > #+startup: beamer
> > #+options: toc:nil latex:t tex:t
> > #+latex_class_options: [presentation]
> > #+beamer_frame_level: 2
> > #+beamer_header_extra: \usetheme{default}
> >
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor}
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage{tikz,ifthen}
> > #+latex_header: \usetikzlibrary{decorations,arrows,automata,positioning}
> >
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage{setspace}
> > #+latex_header: \setstretch{1.3}
> >
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage{MinionPro}
> > #+latex_header: \renewcommand{\sfdefault{Myriad-LF}}
> >
> > \AtBeginSection[]{
> > \begin{frame}<beamer>
> > \frametitle{Outline}
> > \tableofcontents[currentsection]
> > \end{frame}}
>
> I don't think that bit of LaTeX code is going to make it into your
> exported output, because the heading is tagged :noexport:. The #+ lines
> are fine though.
>
> Dan
>
>
> >
> > #+title: Title
> >
> > * First actual heading...
> > ----------
> >
> > The output looks fine... are there any foreseeable issues with this?
> >
> >
> > John
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