[Orgmode] Re: Exporting to a Beamer presentation

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Nick,

>>>> BTW, any solution for exporting to a Beamer presentation? I'd be very
>>>> very very interested by anything in that direction. That's the last piece
>>>> of the whole puzzle, IMHO.
>>>
>>> I did a beamer presentation in org-mode last month (1 hour, about 20
>>> slides). Here is a simplified version (I'll talk about some problems at
>>> the end).
>>>
>>> o org-export-latex-classes is augmented with a beamer element as follows:
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
>>> |                '("beamer"
>>> |                  
>>> "\\documentclass[11pt]{beamer}\n\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\n\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n\\usepackage{hyperref}\n\\usepackage{verbatim}\n\\setbeameroption{show
>>>  notes}\n\\usetheme{Goettingen}\n\\useoutertheme{infolines}"
>>> |                  ("\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}\\begin{itemize}" 
>>> "\\end{itemize}\\end{frame}"
>>> |                   "\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}\\begin{itemize}" 
>>> "\\end{itemize}\\end{frame}")
>>> |                  ("\\item{%s}" . "\\item*{%s}")
>>> |                  ("\\end{itemize}\\note{" "}")))
>>> `----

BTW, you'd better use `C-c M-m' for quoting your code. It will allow an easy
copy past of it... Like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
C-c M-m runs the command message-mark-inserted-region, which is an interactive
compiled Lisp function in `message.el'.

It is bound to C-c M-m, <menu-bar> <Message> <Insert Region Marked>.

(message-mark-inserted-region beg end &optional verbatim)

Mark some region in the current article with enclosing tags.
See `message-mark-insert-begin' and `message-mark-insert-end'.
If verbatim, use slrn style verbatim marks ("#v+" and "#v-").
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


>> Excellent idea... [But] having done the above `add-to-list' in Emacs (with
>> `C-x C-e'), I got a different exported file than yours. But really
>> different [...]
>>
>> There is no text, in fact...
>> Don't understand why...
>
> I don't understand why either, but it may be some setting in my setup
> or your setup that leads to the different behavior.

Spotted it down...

I am skipping even levels and only use odd levels for the outline:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
    (setq org-odd-levels-only t)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But your example had even levels...

So, changing:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
** Reason 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

to:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** Reason 1
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

solves the main issue, and let me test better this fantastic export...

Thanks Nick,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban