Re: [O] beamer columns and printout

[Seb Frank]

I've solved the first problem, using a something similar to what has been suggested here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10295177/is-there-an-equivalent-of-org-modes-b-ignoreheading-for-non-beamer-documents

The solution is to define
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun sf-ignore-headline (contents backend info)
  "Ignore headlines with tags `ignoreheading" or `columns'."
  (when (and (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'latex 'html 'ascii)
             (string-match "\\`.*\\(ignoreheading\\|columns\\).*\n"
                           (downcase contents)))
    (replace-match "" nil nil contents)))

(add-to-list 'org-export-filter-headline-functions 'sf-ignore-headline)
#+end_src emacs-lisp

This removes headlines with tags "columns" (or "ignoreheading", for that matter), which is what I wanted. Any ideas for the second problem? I.e., how to get rid of the BMCOL in export to latex/html/etc. while keeping the headlines/content?

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Seb Frank <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I'm interested in using org-mode to generate beamer slides and an article-like printout (using the article class, usepackage{beamerarticle} and latex export) from the same source, and I am running into two problems with the export to article when there are multiple columns.

1.) I often use an empty headline with B_columns tag to allow me to specify top alignment. E.g.,

#+begin_src org
*                                                             :B_columns:
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_env: columns
:BEAMER_opt: T
:END:
** Column 1                                                     :BMCOL:
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_col: 0.35
:END:
** Column 2                                                :BMCOL:
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_COL: 0.6
:END:
#+end_src org

In the printout, this yields an ugly empty section with a number if num:t. Is there a better way to pass [T] to the title-less columns environment, or (less preferably) a way to specify a title for the section without it appearing on the beamer slide?

2.) In the above example, the B_columns and BMCOL tags get exported to the latex file for the printout (with an error because the underscore is used outside of math mode). Can these be suppressed?

Thanks,

  Seb