Re: [Orgmode] Beamer support in Org-mode

[Carsten Dominik]

On Nov 26, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > this is in response to the discussions about beamer
> > export from Org-mode.  Yesterday I had a long train ride
> > during which I scanned the beamer documentation (smoking
> > hot stuff!).
>
> Indeed - Till Tantau has a gift for documentation (among other
> gifts). I'd recommend the documentation for pgf/tikz as well. Amazing.

Don't tell me he wrote pgf/tikz as well???

Unbelievable.

> > Then I made the attached draft
> > for Org-mode support, strongly based on the stuff
> > Eric Fraga has put together recently.  What is described
> > below sort-of works in some experimental code here, but before
> > I polish I would like comments on this outline.
> >
> > NOW is the time to chime in.
>
> Two questions (with apologies in advance: I've been buried for a while
> now, so I may have missed important details):
>
> o How do I test? Is there a beamer template for org-export-latex- 
> classes
>  that implements this spec? I just did a git pull but did not see one.

This is still crappy code on a local branch here, I want to figure out  
what
I/we actually want before publishing it.

> o I didn't see anything about notes (in the beamer sense: speaker  
> notes
>  that don't appear in the slides, but do appear in the handout). For
>  me, that is one of the most important aspects of beamer: the slides
>  are there to remind me what to say (and hopefully to elicit the same
>  memory in the audience, after the talk is finished). They provide the
>  structure, but they are just a bunch of bones, a skeleton.  The notes
>  are the meat of the presentation, so imho it would behoove Org to
>  provide a mechanism for notes from the get-go.

Yes, I did not look at notes yet.  Good point.

Any succestions?  Subtrees with a B_note tag?

First need to try how notes actually work....

- Carsten

> Thanks,
> Nick

- Carsten