From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Beamer support - 2nd round Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:10:33 +0100 Message-ID: <98394494-D5E4-4C8E-BC6A-ECBFC7164DE6@gmail.com> References: <87ljhi1tbo.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGy9c-0006F4-1e for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:10:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NGy9W-00066A-J0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:10:42 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35679 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NGy9W-00065r-EC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:10:38 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f227.google.com ([209.85.219.227]:46575) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NGy9V-0007CL-QP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:10:38 -0500 Received: by ewy27 with SMTP id 27so4178486ewy.16 for ; Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:10:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87ljhi1tbo.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk Cc: emacs-orgmode Mode Hi Eric, On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > At Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:10:44 +0100, > Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> after carefully listening to all your comments and thinking >> things through more thoroughly, here is now my second attempt >> to define beamer support in Org-mode. > > Carsten, > > Thanks for this! After learning a bit about git branches (more than I > probably wanted to know ;-) and a bit more about org mode columns > view, I can say that I like what you have done. I've been playing > with your sample file for a short while and it looks a good design > which seems to support everything /I/ would want and does so in an > easy way (especially the combination of the new C-c C-b special > org-beamer command and columns view). > > I've run into a few niggles but I need to play some more (probably > over the weekend) to see whether some of them are my fault or due to > bugs in the code. However, some immediate niggles or suggestions are: > > - I need to be able to specify arguments for columns (i.e. the > environment, not specific columns), specifically > often [t] to make two columns align vertically Yes, this is a problem. YOu can specify arguments for the columns environment if you create it explicitly, i.e. with a headline with BEAMER_env set to "columns". But I can see that it would be good to be able to set an argument also when creating the environment implicitly. I'll think of something. > > - I don't understand what the difference between opt and envargs is. > In fact, I see no reference to BEAMER_opt in the document you wrote > yet your example has opt as one of the column view specifications. opt is obsolete, I had three separate properties opt, ovl, and dovl at some point (tried many different things during the last week), but I decided to lump them all into one, envargs. > > - it would be nice if when a column heading is also a block heading, > that the tags generated (which, by the way, is a really nice > feature) include both block and column tags to make it easy to spot > the column aspect. Hmm, I agree that this would be useful. You mean if a heading has both BEAMER_env and BEAMER_col set.... > > You'll probably be hearing from me soon again! > > Oh, and thanks for the separate email showing me how to do my page 100 > with the new setup. How to do it was actually quite clear from the > example you gave in the other message. Very straightforward and does > work nicely. Good. - Carsten > > Thanks again, > eric - Carsten