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From: Christian Zang <zang@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: Beamer export: metropolis-theme specific question
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:10:06 +0100
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> On Tuesday,  8 Dec 2015 at 21:07, zang_news@posteo.de wrote:
>> Dear fellow Orgers,
>>
>> I like the metropolis beamer theme a lot [1], and I use it with Org
>> frequently. metropolis has a \plain macro that inserts a new, minimally
>> styled slide optimal for a short statement or an image. In plain latex,
>> I would do e.g.
>
> [...]
>
>> I just cannot get my head around how to tell Org to do this! If I do
>>
>> * a normal frame with title etc.
>> some content
>>
>> #+BEGIN_LATEX
>> \plain{another normal frame with title etc.}
>> #+END_LATEX
>>
>> * another normal frame with title etc.
>> some other content
>
> This is really tricky because a headline in org both ends the preceding
> frame and starts a new frame.  The only way I can think of is for you to
> explicitly end and start the adjoining frames, as in:
>
> #+begin_src org
>    ,* a normal frame with title etc.
>    some content
>
>    ,#+BEGIN_LATEX
>    \end{frame}
>    \plain{another normal frame with title etc.}
>    \begin{frame}{another normal frame with title etc.}
>    ,#+END_LATEX
>
>    some other content
> #+end_src
>
> This will be somewhat fragile, e.g. if previous frame has columns they
> will also need to be terminated properly...

Thanks, also for the explanation. This solution works for my setup, 
since I usually do not use columns.
Best, Christian

>
> HTH,
> eric
>