Beamer and notes blocks

Beamer and notes blocks

[Jeff Horn]

Hi all,

Could someone enlighten me as to how to get blocks with the beamer
environment "notes" to show up?

Specifically, I don't want notes to show up in the presentation (the
default, expected behavior), but I would like them to show up in a
speaker notes pdf.

How are you producing speaker notes for your Beamer presentations
using org-export?

Thanks for any help!
Jeff

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Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

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Re: Beamer and notes blocks

[Stephen Eglen]

Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:

> Could someone enlighten me as to how to get blocks with the beamer
> environment "notes" to show up?
>
> Specifically, I don't want notes to show up in the presentation (the
> default, expected behavior), but I would like them to show up in a
> speaker notes pdf.
>
> How are you producing speaker notes for your Beamer presentations
> using org-export?

At the moment, my solution is to add:
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [notes]

into your .org file when you want the beamer notes added, and disable
that line  (e.g. put a space after the hash) when you don't want the
notes included.

Is there another way though?

Stephen

Re: Re: Beamer and notes blocks

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 28, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Stephen Eglen wrote:

> Jeff Horn <jrhorn424@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Could someone enlighten me as to how to get blocks with the beamer
>> environment "notes" to show up?
>>
>> Specifically, I don't want notes to show up in the presentation (the
>> default, expected behavior), but I would like them to show up in a
>> speaker notes pdf.
>>
>> How are you producing speaker notes for your Beamer presentations
>> using org-export?
>
> At the moment, my solution is to add:
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [notes]
>
> into your .org file when you want the beamer notes added, and disable
> that line  (e.g. put a space after the hash) when you don't want the
> notes included.
>
> Is there another way though?

I am not sure.  But maybe you could try to specify what a good  
interfact for notes would look like?

- Carsten

Re: Re: Beamer and notes blocks

[Stephen Eglen]

> > into your .org file when you want the beamer notes added, and disable
> > that line  (e.g. put a space after the hash) when you don't want the
> > notes included.
> >
> > Is there another way though?
> 
> I am not sure.  But maybe you could try to specify what a good
> interfact for notes would look like?

Yes, will do.  The approach above is similar to what I do for beamer
slides in .tex, so I'm used to this approach.  

I have just used org mode to make beamer slides for several lectures
this term, and once term finishes, I'll think further and write some
notes/examples.  

Stephen

Re: Re: Beamer and notes blocks

[Jeff Horn]

Oh, that's really nice. I'm particularly pleased with the way beamer
writes speaker notes like slides.

One additional thing: I needed to comment out

#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]

before adding

#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [notes]

Maybe that was implied. Just wanted to post for posterity.

Thanks, again!

Jeff
-- 
Jeffrey Horn
Graduate Lecturer and PhD Student in Economics
George Mason University

(704) 271-4797
jhorn@gmu.edu
jrhorn424@gmail.com

http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/