Adam Spiers <address@hidden> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:49:23PM -0300, Darlan Cavalcante
Moreira wrote:
In addition, while I also agree that footnotes shouldn't be in a
presentation
they are allowed when working with beamer and may be useful in
some cases. If
org-mode export footnotes as beamer notes then some months from
now someone
would be asking here in the mailing-list how to enter a standard
footnote when
exporting to beamer.
I agree - unfortunately there are genuinely sensible uses of
footnotes
in presentations. For example, citation of sources for quotations,
data etc. is ideally accomplished by footnotes: they are not used
during the presentation itself, but by distributing paper and/or
electronic copies after the talk, footnotes provide essential
reference data for perusal by the audience at a later date.
I think that's an argument *for* Eric's idea (assuming that the
handout
includes notes - that's my practice, but maybe not everybody does
that,
although they *should* :-) ).
In general, I think slides should be very simple: single-level lists,
single idea per slide, no footnotes - but I know that generalities
like
that are just guidelines: meant to be broken, given a good enough
cause.
Imagine a slide showing the results of a benchmark, claiming "X is
much faster than Y!" You might want to talk briefly about how the
results were obtained, and about the impact of the results, but you
would also need to be able to tell the audience they could
independently verify the results by obtaining a copy of the slides
and
visiting the URL contained in the footnote - especially if the
results
are controversial! In this case, it would not matter that the URL
was
too small to be legible from the back of the room.
How does inverting Eric's idea sound: invent a new kind of footnote,
let's call it, say, a "pnote", which is treated exactly like a
footnote in
all exports *except* beamer. In beamer, footnotes end up in the frame
and pnotes end up in the notes.
Not sure whether the implementation would be as simple as this
makes it
sound, but who knows?[1]
Thanks,
Nick
[1] Well, OK: Carsten knows...