Re: [O] Beamer specific setupfile?

[Nick Dokos]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Yeah, I should have just posted an example with an included theme
> > instead of the one I usually use. I think I tracked it down. First, I
> > added =t= to the list of class options:
> > ---
> > #+latex_class_options: [t,presentation,bigger]
> > ---
> > 
> > I saw an effect on my frame alignment, which told me things were,
> > indeed, being read. It seems the issue was with using
> > #+beamer_header_extra. I don't know what that's supposed to be for,
> > but it isn't picking up the theme option. Actually... in searching for
> > what it's supposed to be used for, I ran across a mailing list post of
> > the same problem:
> > -- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-09/msg01011.html
> > 
> > Indeed, ditching beamer_header_extra for the theme setting and just
> > using #+latex_header... works.
> > 
> > Thoughts on fixing this?
> > 
> > 
> 
> The beamer exporter is searching the original file for #+BEAMER_* stuff, not
> the setup file (and of course it does not find anything interesting there).
> 
> The latex exporter seems to find everything in the setup file however, so 
> there
> must be some mechanism for searching the setup file. If so, it should be
> possible to crib it and copy it into the beamer exporter. But the devil, as 
> the
> saying goes, is in the details...
> 

I think the magic for latex headers happens in org-infile-export-plist:
but the function has not been told about #+BEAMER_* stuff, so it'll need
the addition of a few more cases to handle the beamer stuff.

Nick