Re: Org-mode styled beamer presentations

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia 2013-05-24, o godz. 11:41:49
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> napisał(a):

> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> writes:
> >
> >> <shameless plug>
> >>
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> many of you use Org-mode to create Beamer presentations.  How
> >> about the other way round?  I wrote an Org-mode styled Beamer
> >> theme.  Please use, enjoy and report bugs and feature requests!
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/marcin_mbork/status/335890494980767746
> >> http://mbork.pl/2013-05-18_A_presentation_on_LaTeX_editing_%28en%29
> >> https://github.com/mbork/beamerorgtheme
> >>
> >> </shameless plug>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >
> > Very cute!  I like it.

Thanks!

> > Now I just need to customise it so that it matches my usual colour
> > theme in Emacs which has a black background!  Ahh, a perfect excuse
> > to not get any more work done today ;-)
> >
> > thanks,
> > eric
> 
> Well, that was too easy... see attached for a slightly different
> version of your colour theme which gives black background with
> yellowish-white foreground and red highlighting...

Yep, modifying beamer color themes is usually rather easy: often you
just give a few "basic" (as in "basis" of a linear space) colors and the
rest are just linear (or even convex) combinations of those.

> I guess I have to get back to work now! ;-)
> 
> In fact, I have a talk to prepare for next week.  I think I'll use
> this style!  The audience should be sufficiently geeky to appreciate
> it for once.

Great!  My audience was also quite geeky; in fact, one colleague asked
me for the source of this theme, so that he could learn to make a Vim
Beamer theme;)...

> Thanks again,
> eric

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University