Re: [O] Slideshow using org-tree-to-indirect-buffer

[Nathan Neff]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Nathan Neff <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using org-mode to keep my notes about a slideshow.
>
> The slideshow is a separate PDF, which is fine with me.
>
> I'd like to have a quick 1-button press in emacs that would go
> to the next headline, and "open" the headline like the super-cool
> org-tree-to-indirect-buffer
> so I can see my notes quickly.
>
> I've thought about using the many html export and slideshow options,
> but the key thing
> is that I want to modify my slideshow notes while presenting, as well
> as type in student questions
> that happen on a particular slide into org-mode.
>
> So, I thought about writing a small function that would do something like 
> this:
>
> 1) Go to the next headline
> 2) Run org-tree-to-indirect-buffer on the headline
>
> This would get me going in the right direction and save me several key 
> presses,
> but I can already see problems if I switch to the indirect buffer to
> write down another note.  Then,
> I'll have to jump back to the other window, and hope that the cursor
> is in the right spot
> when I run my function again.
>
> A more elegant way would be to only show the indirect buffer, and have
> a hotkey that
> jumps to the next headline and runs org-tree-to-indirect-buffer.
>
> So here's my question:
>
> If I'm in an indirect buffer, is there a reference back to the location of
> the headline in the *parent* document?  For example, if I have
>
> * One
> * Two
> * Three
>
> and I'm zoomed into "Two", could I write a function that would know that I'm
> on "Two" in the main document, and then run
> org-tree-to-indirect-buffer on "Three"?

Just wanted to mention that I found Org-Tree-Slide, which is exactly what
I was looking for -- an easy to use slideshow that just takes an org-mode file
and zooms into each headline.

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/non-beamer-presentations.html#sec-4