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From: Ratish Punnoose <ratish@gmail.com>
Subject: quote, quotation environments in org beamer export just comment text
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Is there a reason that quote, quotation, verse, environments during export 
to tex just comment their contents.

As you can see, they precede the text with "%%"  which causes latex to 
ignore their contents.

This is an extract from ox-beamer.el

Thanks
Ratish

>From ox-beamer.el
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(defconst org-beamer-environments-default
  '(("block"          "b" "\\begin{block}%a{%h}"          "\\end{block}")
    ("alertblock"     "a" "\\begin{alertblock}%a{%h}"     
"\\end{alertblock}")
    ("verse"          "v" "\\begin{verse}%a %% %h"        "\\end{verse}")
    ("quotation"      "q" "\\begin{quotation}%a %% %h"    
"\\end{quotation}")
    ("quote"          "Q" "\\begin{quote}%a %% %h"        "\\end{quote}")
    ("structureenv"   "s" "\\begin{structureenv}%a %% %h" 
"\\end{structureenv}")
    ("theorem"        "t" "\\begin{theorem}%a%U"          "\\end{theorem}")
    ("definition"     "d" "\\begin{definition}%a%U"       
"\\end{definition}")
    ("example"        "e" "\\begin{example}%a%U"          "\\end{example}")
    ("exampleblock"   "E" "\\begin{exampleblock}%a{%h}"   
"\\end{exampleblock}")
    ("proof"          "p" "\\begin{proof}%a%U"            "\\end{proof}")
    ("beamercolorbox" "o" "\\begin{beamercolorbox}%o{%h}" 
"\\end{beamercolorbox}"))  "Environments triggered by properties in Beamer 
export.
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