From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gray Calhoun Subject: Re: Beamer support in Org-mode Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:03:52 -0600 Message-ID: <4B12B788.2000303@iastate.edu> References: <6A790953-D036-4BAE-8833-E5B343A15331@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEo7w-0006YX-OU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:04:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NEo7q-0006VK-Hn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:04:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44956 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NEo7q-0006VF-DW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:03:58 -0500 Received: from mailhub-5.iastate.edu ([129.186.140.15]:37140) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NEo7p-0007ND-W0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:03:58 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6A790953-D036-4BAE-8833-E5B343A15331@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: mailing-list-org-mode list Hi Carsten and all, Beamer export sounds fantastic. I've been using org mode for this sort of thing a lot over the last year--all of my lecture notes are typed up as an org file, and I used org mode to draft slides for a presentation over the summer, so an automated process would be helpful. But, I'm not sure that it makes sense to hardcode the frames as a level 2 headline (or any level headline); I find it easier to define a slide to be any headline that has no subheadings, regardless of its depth---the ability to outline the structure of a presentation as appropriate and then fill in the details (ie the slides) later is (imho) the reason to use org-mode for this sort of task in the first place. Columns, etc., could then be handled by using properties of the last headline, or as a special list. This approach might also make it easier to export the same file to other formats (i.e. the existing html format). I imagine that this would be a little harder to program, though, and is just my two cents. --Gray Carsten Dominik wrote: (snipped) > 1.2 Frames > =========== > Level 2 headline (or the level configured in > org-beamer-frame-level) become frames. The headline text become > the frame title, but if no headline text is given, the frame gets > no title. If the frame title contains the string "\\", the line > will be split at that location, and the second half become the > frame /subtitle/. (snipped) -- Gray Calhoun Assistant Professor of Economics, Iowa State University http://www.econ.iastate.edu/~gcalhoun/ 467 Heady Hall Ames, IA 50011 Phone: (515) 294-6271 Fax: (515) 294-0221