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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:10:44PM +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> after carefully listening to all your comments and thinking
> things through more thoroughly, here is now my second attempt
> to define beamer support in Org-mode.

[snipped]

This is very exciting :-)  Just one comment for now:

> 2.2 Frames
> ===========
> 
> The BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL setting governs which levels become frames.  If
> that option is set to 0, then frames are only created by setting the
> `BEAMER_env' property of an entry to the value `frame'.
> 
> The heading of the entry will become the frame title.  If the frame
> title contains the string `\\', the line will be split at that
> location, and the second half will become the frame /subtitle/.  If
> you need a line break in the frame title, use `\newline' or
> `\linebreak'.

If the frame title is long enough to require a line break, most likely
it will start creeping over the right-hand margin of the emacs frame
during editing.  Consequently anything which can save a few columns
might be helpful, so how about allowing \n to mean the same as
\newline ?