Hi Tom,

I didn't want to do this to start with because I didn't think LaTeX would be
happy with overriding the title - it turns out it doesn't mind, so thanks
for pointing that out!

The problem with your suggestion is that the overriding doesn't take place
(by default) until after the \maketitle command.  This has the effect of not
setting the short title on the title slide (it really shouldn't be there
anyway) or the table of contents slide.  I just found a way around this by
exploiting the fact that the BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA lines are exported /after/
the \title command is exported.  In other words, including the line

#+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \title[XRBs in Multi-d]{Multidimensional Simulations
of Convection Preceding Type I X-ray Bursts}

overrides the title and performs as I want.

Chris

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:

> Aloha Chris,
>
> Perhaps this will work:
>
> #+begin_latex
>
> \title[XRBs in Multi-d]{Multidimensional Simulations of Convection
> Preceding Type I X-ray Bursts}
> #+end_latex
>
> hth,
> Tom
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Chris Malone wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> Is there an org-mode way to use a short title for export to beamer?
>>
>> Some of the beamer templates (or manual setting) show the title of the
>> talk in a footer or header, but the box-size is often too small.  To
>> counter-act this issue, the LaTeX \title command takes an optional short
>> title, which is what is actually displayed in the footer/header mentioned
>> above.
>>
>> For example, my presentation has a title
>>
>> #+TITLE:     Multidimensional Simulations of Convection Preceding Type I
>> X-ray Bursts
>>
>> which is way too long for the small space allocated to the title in the
>> footer/header.  It would be nice if, in org-mode, one could specify
>>
>> #+TITLE:     Multidimensional Simulations of Convection Preceding Type I
>> X-ray Bursts
>> #+SHORT_TITLE: XRBs in Multi-d
>>
>> which then is exported as
>>
>> \title[XRBs in Multi-d]{Multidimensional Simulations of Convection
>> Preceding Type I X-ray Bursts}
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe this is already do-able through some other means within org-mode
>> without having to modify the .tex file?
>>
>> Chris
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