From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: beamer export Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:06:42 +0200 Message-ID: References: <9275E4D6-FB42-45DE-8593-CE7FD51A7A75@ucalgary.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52085 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OmCKl-0000LO-2W for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:07:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmCKj-0002hr-Kk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:07:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:61552) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OmCKj-0002hl-Bv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:07:33 -0400 Received: by eyg7 with SMTP id 7so1788797eyg.0 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9275E4D6-FB42-45DE-8593-CE7FD51A7A75@ucalgary.ca> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Antony Ware Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" 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