Re: [beamer] frame arguments must be in envargs, not extra

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Jan 8, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> At Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:38:00 +0100,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On Jan 7, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>>> the documentation for beamer support,
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer.php
>>>
>>> under the "Special properties" heading suggests that the  
>>> BEAMER_extra
>>> property can be used to specify options for the environment.
>>> For
>>> frames, trying for instance "[shrink=30]", this doesn't work.
>>
>> No, this is not what BEAMER_extra is for, this is the function
>> BEAMER_envargs.  BEAMER_extra is just plain LaTeX that will be  
>> inserted.
>
> Ah, okay.  That makes sense and BEAMER_envargs does indeed work.   
> Thanks!
>
>> I don't this the document says differently, can you point out exactly
>> where you got this from?
>
> I guess it was me reading too much into what you say about the extra
> property.  The problem is that it mentions frames so I thought it
> could be used to modify frame behaviour.  However, anything placed in
> BEAMER_extra doesn't actually end up right after the \begin{frame} but
> instead is placed after the \frametitle directive.  I have no problem
> with this but it is slightly inconsistent with the wording for
> BEAMER_extra in that the extra text does not get placed immediately
> after the environment start.

Yes.

That document is a bit outdated, I think the manual formulates this a  
bit better already.

Actually, I am hoping very much that you and maybe a few other will turn
the Worg page into something much more useful, wit examples, tips and  
tricks,
and whatnot.

- Carsten

>
> Thanks again,
> eric

- Carsten