Re: [O] [beamer] Italic in overlay text

[Eric S Fraga]

Sebastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> Sebastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
>>> When trying to have italic text inside some paragraph that must only be
>>> displayed in some overlays, the text inside `/' is not converted into
>>> italic.
>>
>> This does seem to highlight a bug in the exporter. I cannot help you
>> directly with that.
>
> I will try with Nicolas' new exporter to see if that's the same or not.
>
>> However, I can suggest a more org-appropriate approach: lists understand
>> <1-2> type of syntax so you can change your input file to something like the
>> attached. More concise and easier to read...
>
> You're absolutely right on the clarity level. Thanks for this workaround.
>
>> - <1-2> On overlay 1 and 2
>>
>>   /This quoted text should be in italic./
>>
>>   #+LaTeX: \textit{
>>   This is in italic, but only in PDF LaTeX, because of the workaround.
>>   #+LaTeX: }
>>
>> - Always there
>>
>> - <3-> Idem
>
> However, it does not work in the intended way: here, the text which has to
> appear on the 2 first slides is simply made transparent on the 3^rd... It
> still occupies its place.

Ah, yes, sorry.  The <...> goes directly to the \item latex construct
and that does an uncover, not an only operation.

I have little experience with \only other than with tikz diagrams as I
prefer my slides to not jump about; purely subjective opinion of what
works and what doesn't work for me!

Sorry I couldn't help much here.
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