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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Ragged Left in Beamer Export?
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 10:30:19 +0100
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On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 10:27, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying the following:
>
>
> #+BEGIN_QUOTE
> "Getting ragged-left text in a Beamer presentation exported from Org does not
> seem as easy as I expected."
> #+END_QUOTE
>
> #+BEGIN_LaTeX
> \begin{raggedleft}
> From "Loris' Adventures in Orgland"
> \end{raggedleft}
> #+END_LaTeX
>
>
> This seems to get exported to the latex file OK, but the text after the
> quote is justified left in the final Beamer PDF.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

The ragged left only takes place when a paragraph ends so simply put
"\par" before the end:

#+begin_src org
  ,#+BEGIN_LaTeX
  \begin{raggedleft}
  From "Loris' Adventures in Orgland"
  \par\end{raggedleft}
  ,#+END_LaTeX
#+end_src

Your code might look better this way, by the way:

#+begin_src org
  ,#+latex: \begin{raggedleft}
  From "Loris' Adventures in Orgland"
  ,#+latex: \par\end{raddedleft}
#+end_src

as you can then use org syntax on the text elements.

HTH,
eric
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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.4.50.2, Org release_8.2.6-958-g7c8559-git