On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:29:55 -0500, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > When I've used beamer in the past for, say, blocks I just use:
> >
> > \begin{block}
> > Here is some text for the block
> > \end{block}
> >
> > I was looking more closely at this today:
> > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer/tutorial.php
> >
> > Is there a comprehensive list of all the beamer_env options that can be
> > passed? For example since these work:
> > BEAMER_env: block
> > BEAMER_env: example
> >
> > I would have figured that this would also work:
> > BEAMER_env: alert
> >
> > However only an itemized item shows up...
> >
> > Also, example blocks are rendered with the block title: "Example (Heading
> > title)" and I'd rather just have "Heading title" -- is there a way to do
> > this?
> >
> > It'd be great to see all of the possible property values that can be
> passed
> > somewhere. Maybe something like the list at the bottom of the export
> options
> > page in the org manual where you have a nice long list of all possible
> > options in one place?
>
> If you are using direct beamer support within org, by having
>
> : #+startup: beamer
>
>
Duh. Gosh, can't believe I missed that. That's the ticket!


> in the preamble of your file, you can use the C-c C-b sequence at any
> heading to see all the possible options for that heading.  This
> includes the example etc. blocks.
>
> Regarding the output produced by beamer for the example block, this
> has nothing to do with org: beamer has a number of different types of
> blocks from a simple block through to examples, proofs, quotes,
> definition etc.  Pick the right kind for what you want.  Also
> choose the beamer theme that fits your needs.
>

Kind of. I guess my question was this:

- If I do a "straight" LaTeX block like this:
\begin{exampleblock}{Example}
Here is some text
\end{exampleblock}

I get the title "Example" for the block.

- If I do it via org-beamer like this:
*** Example block    :B_example:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: example
    :END:
Here is some text

Then I get the block title "Example (Example block)"

That's what I mean. I guess if examples are *supposed* to say Example
(what-the-example-is) then that's fine. I guess I use these blocks more for
color differentiation's sake than actually needing them to be known as
"examples" or "alerts."


>
> > Lastly, is there an advantage to using properties if one doesn't
> anticipate
> > using column view? If not perhaps I'll stick with straight LaTeX code...
>
> Yes: being able to easily specify the type of block.  And it's about
> hiding all the superfluous information, leaving only the text and
> structure visible!
>

Indeed -- this is excellent and now that I'm in the environment and know C-c
C-b it makes all the difference! I like having org markup available rather
than needing to do \emph{} in blocks since once inside of explicit LaTeX,
org's markup doesn't get picked up.

Thanks for the help!


John


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