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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Custom column environment in beamer export
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:37:17 +0200
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Hi Nicolas,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> 
> > Unfortunately, BEAMER_OPTs are wrapped in square brackets thanks to
> > org-beamer--normalize-argument, so the above won't actually work (see
> > org-beamer--format-block).  From the looks of it I'd be willing to call it
> > a bug, but Nicolas may have had something in mind.
> 
> IIRC it was a pre-8.0 feature already. In any case, it allows sloppy
> writing for options, i.e., with or without square brackets.

Yes, I think so.

> > Perhaps these days it would be nice to allow the third element of
> > org-beamer-environments-extra to be a λ taking either the object or so.
> > Then again, perhaps this is an overkill and too low-level.
> 
> More simply, we can also add placeholders in templates, e.g.,
> 
>   %R raw action specification
>   %O raw options argument

Indeed, that would work well I think.  One can wrap the raw arguments
anyway you wish in the template.

Cheers,

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Suvayu

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