Re: latex (beamer) export and short title

[Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de>]

Hi Bastien and Sebastien,

thanks for taking this further!

"Sebastien Vauban"
<wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:

> Hi Bastien,
>
> Bastien wrote:
>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>>
>>> Overriding org's setting of \title with
>>> ,----
>>> | #+TITLE:       long title
>>> | #+latex_header: \title[short title]{long title}
>>> `----
>>> does not work either, as org's setting gets into the tex later.
>>
>> There is no way to do this right now.
>>
>> From what I've seen, \title[shorttitle]{title} is a beamerism, right?

The reason for me asking was indeed a beamer presentation.

>
> I have the impression that it's as well for other LaTeX classes, such as
> article, report and book.
>
> At least, it's so for ASMart: see
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/44510/title-too-long-when-using-amsart.
>

Thanks for looking this up.  The short title for footlines is something
that I have used occasionally as well.

>> If so, we may hack something in the next Beamer export library without
>> changing the LaTeX export library.

I'd be a regular user of such functionality, especially for
presentations.  But as the concept is useful in other (LaTeX-)
documents, a more general support for short titles might be appropriate,
I'd say.


Regards,
Andreas