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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
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Pete Phillips <pete@smtl.co.uk> wrote:

> >>>>> "Nick" == Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
>     Nick> Hi Bastien, I have a quick-n-dirty patch to export an org file
>     Nick> as a beamer document. 
> 

NB: the original patch was wrong and it does not apply cleanly. I sent
an updated patch to the list yesterday.

> Cool. I use lyx to edit beamer presentations which I export as pdf
> files. Do you have plans to add other beamer support such as inserting
> images etc ? Whilst I like lyx a lot, I prefer editing in emacs for
> speed.
> 
Plans? What's that?-) Seriously though, I probably won't have the time
to do anything about it for a while, particularly since I'm no expert
in any of the technologies involved, so I would likely need to do
some trial-and-error research which takes far longer than I could afford
right now.

> Would be great if it supported some sort of localisation file (so I can
> include the usual bunch of stuff that gives me blue background, yellow
> text, etc etc).
> 
You can customize the variable org-export-latex-classes to do anything
that can be done in the preamble to the document, but I don't know
whether the above can be done there. If it needs to be done after the
\begin{document}, this won't work.  An ugly workaround is to customize
org-export-latex-title-command to be more than just "\\maketitle",
although there might be a less hackish way. A hook could be added to do
that of course, but I tend to agree with you that a localization file
might provide for more flexibility in the long run.

Regards,
Nick