Re: [dev] About a beamer back-end

[Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>]

Sebastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

[...]

> Personally, I dislike using headlines for *anything* that's in the frame. I
> like the idea that headlines do show the structure of your presentation:
>
> - (optionally) sections and subsections for the sidebar
> - frame title (and subtitle)
>
> and no more.

This is interesting because, for me, the blocks within a frame are very
much part of the structure of the presentation.  I often start writing a
presentation with the outline consisting of sections, frame titles and
block titles.

> I would add that headlines are inherently outline-oriented, while here we
> speak about block or column contents which are inherently block-oriented
> (maybe not really for the column contents, though).

But for me, block and column headings are part of the outline.

> But this whole thing is just personal taste. I'm not coming with any solution,
> however!

Yes, it probably all does come down to personal taste and, as I have
said in an earlier message, whatever Nicolas ends up implementing will
be fine with me.
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