Re: [O] Beamer export: How to handle overlayarea

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi James,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:43:59AM +0800, James Harkins wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2013 12:58 AM, "Nicolas Goaziou" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >    Headlines also support 'BEAMER_ACT' and 'BEAMER_OPT' properties. The
> > former is translated as an overlay/action specification, or a default
> > overlay specification when enclosed within square brackets.  The latter
> > specifies options for the current frame or block, and will automatically
> > be enclosed within square brackets.
> 
> That would help.
> 
> I'd still like to see something more like a "for-dummies" explanation of
> passing options and arguments to LaTeX entities. I'm not saying the
> documentation is woefully inadequate (hardly that -- Suvayu's page got me
> rather far, and I got stuck on a couple of details). My experience was: it
> never would have occurred to me on my own to use the headline text for
> LaTeX code, and if there was a hint anywhere in the docs to suggest that
> this would be the way to go, I didn't find it. That's a conceptual leap
> that passed me by.

I think I agree with you on this.  It is a conceptual leap.  I'll add a
TODO item on that Worg page about these kind of tricks.

Cheers,

-- 
Suvayu

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