From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Columns with LaTeX beamer export Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:00:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8739vx6oie.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <201007070852.11215.tassilo@member.fsf.org> <201007070914.53025.tassilo@member.fsf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38925 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OWPYJ-0006jG-OV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWPYI-0004Yy-Id for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:19 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f41.google.com ([209.85.215.41]:41116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWPYI-0004Ym-AU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:18 -0400 Received: by ewy28 with SMTP id 28so2309705ewy.0 for ; Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:00:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201007070914.53025.tassilo@member.fsf.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Tassilo Horn Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Hi Carsten, > >> the only way to understand this paragraph is historical. > > I guessed it, thanks for making that clear. > >> In the early days of BEAMER export, Eric Fraga invented a way to make >> columns using an additional level of outline structure, just for >> making the columns. >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/19895/focus=19895 > > Interesting. > >> This worked, but made it difficult to export this file in any other >> way, because of the extra structure. This was overcome with the >> BEAMER_col property, and this is what this paragraph and the phrase >> "without additional structure" is referring to. > > Ah, ok. So now you don't need an extra outline structure for making a > *columns* environment, but you still need it for ending the last > *column* and starting a new one. > > I've though I could go without the latter, too. That would be good > for > documents you export as presentation but also as article handout. I guess you could do it with something like #+BEAMER: {}\begin{column} .... #+BEAMER: {}\end{column} Or, maybe you can talk org-special-blocks.el (contrib dir) into helping you with this... - Carsten