Re: [new exporter] #+TOC in beamer export

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Andreas Leha wrote:
>> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>> >
>> >> from a recent thread I learned about #+TOC (there's always something new
>> >> to learn about org mode).
>> >>
>> >> I'd like to use it in a beamer document.  Here I find it hard to use
>> >> because it introduces its own frame.
>> >>
>> >> My question basically is:  How is this supposed to be used in a beamer
>> >> doc?
>> >> (And would it not be easier if it did not introduce its own frame?)
>> >
>> > It seems useful to keep frame around TOC generated from toc:t option.
>> > But we could remove it from TOC generated from #+TOC keywords.
>> >
>> 
>> Thanks for taking this further.  Indeed, for the toc:t triggered TOC the
>> frame is absolutely useful.
>
> I'm not sure what a \tableofcontents outside a frame would look like.
> Can someone show an example?

I think that the idea behind a frameless TOC is that you provide your
own frame for it.

It makes sense since #+TOC: allows to control accurately the location of
your table of contents.

> I also had another thought; sometimes for long presentations, I use
> something like this:
>
>   \AtBeginSubsection[]{
>     \ifthenelse{
>       \(\value{section}=1\)\AND\(\value{subsection}=1\)
>     }{}
>     {
>       \begin{frame}<beamer>
>         \frametitle{Outline}
>         \tableofcontents[currentsubsection]
>       \end{frame}
>     }
>   }
>
> At the moment I put it in as one long LaTeX_HEADER line.  But would it
> be possible to leverage #+TOC: into having a similar effect?  It might
> then provide a greater degree of control where you want the toc frame to
> appear.

I think this kind of control should really belong to specific latex
code.

A TOC limited to current section sure sounds seducing, but I'm not sure
how to achieve this in LaTeX.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou