From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Antony Ware <aware@ucalgary.ca>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: beamer export
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:06:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FB51BD76-AC53-4EDE-99D8-F92C709B468F@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9275E4D6-FB42-45DE-8593-CE7FD51A7A75@ucalgary.ca>
On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Antony Ware wrote:
> I've been having a problem exporting to beamer. I've now found the
> problem and fixed it, but it was (to my mind) something pretty
> obscure, and I think it might be of interest to the list, at least
> as a salutary tale.
>
> When I opened an org file such as the example beamer presentation
> from the manual (section 12.6.6) and executed C-c C-e d, it kept
> generating a .tex file with an article document class, instead of
> the expected beamer class.
>
> After a few days of frustrated searching through the manual and
> tutorials, and this list, for any clues, I found some advice to run
> something like
>
> /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l test.el
>
> with a series of versions of test.el progressively approximating
> my .emacs file. I was expecting the problem to lie in one of my org-
> or latex-specific settings, but eventually found the cause of the
> problem to be that the variable
>
> case-fold-search
>
> was being set to nil (its default value) as one of my custom-set-
> variables. I don't remember why. Anyway, according to the
> information from C-h v, this makes the setting buffer-local, and for
> some reason that fouled up the beamer export. When I commented out
> that line, everything worked as advertised.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from anyone who could shed light on why
> that might be.
Well,
apparently Org does do a search that relies on case-fold-search
being t. Normally when this is the case
I try to set this explicitly to t during the function call.
Can you make a minimal example with your setup and a small file which
reproduced the error?
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 15:16 beamer export Antony Ware
2010-08-19 21:06 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-19 21:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-19 21:35 ` Antony Ware
2010-08-20 6:40 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-20 16:40 ` Nick Dokos
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