From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Eglen Subject: Tips for writing lecture notes in org-beamer? Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 14:56:34 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46944 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oz8lh-0005ii-O9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:56:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz8lg-0002mw-CP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:56:53 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59210) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz8lg-0002mm-5f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 09:56:52 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oz8lb-0008Vl-Ph for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:56:47 +0200 Received: from rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.17.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:56:47 +0200 Received: from S.J.Eglen by rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:56:47 +0200 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dear all, Has anyone recently used org-beamer to write lecture notes? I'm now updating my lecture notes on a R course, which previously I wrote in latex with beamer. I'm intrigued by the possibility of using org mode directly, although I am yet to be convinced whether it will be any easier than using auctex directly. Has anyone written a set of lecture notes recently in org mode, to persuade me? For example, see http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/eglen/emacs/beamer.txt for how I set up emacs with beamer, so that e.g. the table of contents feature from reftex-toc works. Also, I have auctex set up so that C-M-x "sends" the current slide to latex for processing, so that I can just see how the current slide gets typeset rather than recompiling the whole document. Can I process just the current slide in org mode? So far I've found the following two sites useful: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/10/writing-presentations-with-org-mode-and.html http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer/tutorial.php [In this tutorial.php, the link in footnote 1 is brokenn -- how do I download presentation.org?] For those interested, my R lecture notes (both .tex and beamer pdf) are freely available as accompanying material for a paper I wrote last year: http://www.ploscompbiol.org/doi/pcbi.1000482 If I make significant progress with org mode and beamer, I'd be happy to provide extra materials. Best wishes, Stephen