Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-26 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:05:06 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: [...] > > However, I guess the instructions you give are actually subtly > > incorrect? That is, from what you say above, using setq is not going > > to work because that doesn't invoke any hooks for the particular > > variables. Theref

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-26 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:25:21 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: On Nov 25, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: Carsten, I am puzzled. I can get this to work (and it works very well indeed) but only if I set these variables through the custom

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-26 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:25:21 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > On Nov 25, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > Carsten, > > > > I am puzzled. I can get this to work (and it works very well indeed) > > but only if I set these variables through the customisation interface > > in Emacs (custom

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-25 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Nov 25, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:36 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Eric, tis works just fine for me. Here are the values of the two variables: org-emphasis-alist is a variable defined in `org.el'. org-export-latex-emphasis-alist [...] Carsten,

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:36 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > tis works just fine for me. > > Here are the values of the two variables: > > org-emphasis-alist is a variable defined in `org.el'. > org-export-latex-emphasis-alist [...] Carsten, I am puzzled. I can get this to wo

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:28:36 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > tis works just fine for me. > > Here are the values of the two variables: > > org-emphasis-alist is a variable defined in `org.el'. > Its value is > (("*" bold "" "") > ("/" italic "" "") > ("_" underline "" " span>")

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Eric, tis works just fine for me. Here are the values of the two variables: org-emphasis-alist is a variable defined in `org.el'. Its value is (("*" bold "" "") ("/" italic "" "") ("_" underline "" "span>") ("=" org-code "" "" verbatim) ("~" org-verbatim "" "" verbatim) (";" org-verbat

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:59:20 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: [...] > > Hmm, I think one would still like to be able to make text > bold and italic as well? So I don't think one should use * or /. > How about the exclamation mark? > > I guess the easiest would be to add to the two variables org-e

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-24 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Eric, On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: Carsten, I've thought of one more thing that would be useful in an org to beamer exporter: beamer has the \alert{} command for highlighting text in a slide. It would be nice to have one or other of the *text* or /text/ constructs in or

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
Carsten, I've thought of one more thing that would be useful in an org to beamer exporter: beamer has the \alert{} command for highlighting text in a slide. It would be nice to have one or other of the *text* or /text/ constructs in org translate to \alert{text}. I can, of course, type \alert{te

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-24 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:55:11 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: [...] > > 2. it would be nice to support the block environment in beamer. > > The problem I see here is that one might want to have blocks inside > a column, and maybe columns inside blocks. Is both > allowed/practical/often-used? I mu

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:15 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: At Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:53 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: Hi Eric, I am now getting interested in beamer support. I think this is interesting enough to implement special support for making beamer slides. Excellent! Can I ask you to think

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-23 Thread Daniel Martins
Eric listed all (or almost all) "requirements" for exporting Beamer. Some of the mI encountered a few days ago. I decided to export the lists into latex and then converting by hand the rest of the presentation. I am also very happy that "Beamer" is becoming an official directive of org-mode. Car

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:55:53 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > I am now getting interested in beamer support. I think this is > interesting enough to implement special support for making beamer > slides. Excellent! > Can I ask you to think about it in general terms, what would be

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-23 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Eric, I am now getting interested in beamer support. I think this is interesting enough to implement special support for making beamer slides. Can I ask you to think about it in general terms, what would be useful to have? One of the problems with your most recent solution for the c

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
> At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:34:18 +0100, > Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Anything missing in Org that we should implement to support this > > better? Actually, going through the set of lectures I am currently preparing, I am finding that there is one thing missing that I haven't needed before in latex

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:34:18 +0100, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > Hi Eric, > > this looks very nice! I just tried beamer for the first time, > this is very simple now. Maybe I can drop powerpoint, at least > for some stuff. Thanks Carsten! Definitely drop powerpoint... I would highly recommend o

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-22 Thread Eric S Fraga
At Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:33:52 -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote: > > On Nov 21, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > > Recently, in September, there was a discussion about exporting org > > files to latex using the beamer class and generating slides with > > multiple columns: [...] > > Aloha Eric

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-21 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Nov 21, 2009, at 2:49 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: Recently, in September, there was a discussion about exporting org files to latex using the beamer class and generating slides with multiple columns: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17546 No solution was presented at that time but I

Re: [Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-21 Thread Carsten Dominik
Hi Eric, this looks very nice! I just tried beamer for the first time, this is very simple now. Maybe I can drop powerpoint, at least for some stuff. I think we need a good beamer tutorial on Worg, including this column stuff, and some text about image treatment. Any volunteers? Anything mis

[Orgmode] latex export and beamer columns

2009-11-21 Thread Eric S Fraga
Recently, in September, there was a discussion about exporting org files to latex using the beamer class and generating slides with multiple columns: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17546 No solution was presented at that time but I think I've managed to create one that is quite reas