Re: Re: New beamer support

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: New beamer support
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:25:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B6D584AD-74C5-4F68-BF54-A6A6D3AD6D44@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbqzo05z.fsf@mundaneum.com>

Hi Sebastien,

there is now a new option org-beamer-frame-default-options, and the  
automatically generated to will be wrapped into a frame with title.

- Carsten

On Jan 6, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Eric, Christian, Carsten and all,
>
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:45 +0100, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>>>
>>> The few things I'm tackling right now are:
>>>
>>> - How to get a TOC with a frame title, without having to add it  
>>> explicitly?
>>
>> I think you need to add it explicitly with \tableofcontents? In  
>> beamer, I
>> simply typically have
>>
>> \begin{frame}<beamer>
>>  \frametitle{Table of contents}
>>  \tableofcontents
>> \end{frame}
>
> I guess I wasn't clear...
>
> If I use the option `toc' for the export:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+OPTIONS:   toc:t
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> then I get a slide with the table of contents. Automatically. The only
> "criticism" I did is that there was no title to the generated frame.
>
> Hence, the workaround was setting the `toc' option to `nil' and  
> adding such a
> code by myself:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+BEAMER: \frame{\frametitle{Outline}\tableofcontents}
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But better (IMHO) would be that such a code gets inserted  
> automatically (with
> a frame title set, for example, to `Outline') when the `toc' export  
> option is
> set to `t', and when we're in a beamer class.
>
> Is it better expressed?
>
>
>>> - How to get the TOC repeated when changing of section, with the  
>>> new item
>>>  highlighted? See my manual essay ;-)
>>
>> Again, beamer supports this easily so I would suggest simply adding  
>> some
>> direct latex code at the start of your org file. The latex code I  
>> use is:
>>
>> \AtBeginSection[]
>> {
>>  \begin{frame}
>>    \frametitle{Topic}
>>    \tableofcontents[currentsection]
>>  \end{frame}
>> }
>>
>> You could simply put this in one line with #+latex_header: as in  
>> (untested):
>>
>> #+latex_header: \AtBeginSection[]{  \begin{frame}     
>> \frametitle{Topic}    \tableofcontents[currentsection]  \end{frame}}
>
> Better is:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+BEGIN_BEAMER
> \AtBeginSection[] % Do nothing for \section*
> {
>  \begin{frame}<beamer>
>    \frametitle{Outline}
>    \tableofcontents[currentsection]
>  \end{frame}
> }
> #+END_BEAMER
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Thanks Eric and Christian for your input on this!
>
> Best regards,
>  Seb
>
> -- 
> Sébastien Vauban
>
>
>
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- Carsten