Hi Derek,

In addition to Eric's response, if you wanted to have, say, text on the left
side of the beamer frame and an image on the right, you can use beamer
columns:

#+begin_src org
** Why do we
care?
*** block
:B_ignoreheading:BMCOL:

:PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env:
ignoreheading
    :BEAMER_col:
0.35

:END:
+ \textcolor{green}{They are
explosions!}
+ Unique location for rp-process
burning
+ Flame propagation under extreme
conditions
+ \alert{Constrain EOS for dense
matter}
*** jim_figure
:B_ignoreheading:BMCOL:

:PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env:
ignoreheading
    :BEAMER_col:
0.8

:END:
#+ATTR_LaTeX:
width=\textwidth
./images/jim_diagram2.png

\\ \tiny \flushright Lattimer, J.M., \textit{ApSS}, \textbf{308}, 371 (2007)
#+end_src

You can enter in the =:PROPERTIES: yourself, or you can hit =C-c C-b= on the
line containing the particular block and select it as a column.  You can
find more information here:
http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html

HTH,

Chris

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Derek Thomas <derekcthomas@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Eric and Chris,
> >
> > Thanks for your responses.
> >
> > Eric,
> >
> > I'm currently using latex directly in org, but this method doesn't
> > play nicely with export to a regular tex file.
>
> Why not?  It would be helpful if you could post a minimal example of
> what does not work.
>
> >  Would it be possible
> > to use something similar to this?
> >
> > #+begin_src org
> > ** A plain slide
> > *** [path/to/fig]
> >   :PROPERTIES:
> >   :FIGURE_envargs:
> >   Figure placement options
> >   :END:
> > #+end_src
>
> not as such but you can do the following:
>
> #+begin_src org
> ** a plain slide
> #+attr_latex: width=[0.8\textwidth]
> [[file:figure.png]]
> #+end_src
>
> and the figure should be included just fine.
>
> --
> Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D)
>