Re: Beamer export: metropolis-theme specific question

[zang_news@posteo.de]

Am 09.12.2015 12:45 schrieb Eric S Fraga:
> 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 Eric, also for the explanation! This solution works for my setup, 
since I usually do not use columns.
Best, Christian