Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

[Bernd Weiss]

Dear all,

I am preparing a Beamer presentation and I am having some trouble with 
side effects (?) due to my attempt to customize the LaTeX-export. My 
minimum example can be found below.

The default LaTeX-export does not recognise the '\institute'-option (I 
mean, as far as I know). For that reason, I run "(add-to-list 
'org-export-latex-classes ...)". Unfortunately, the export-function does 
no longer recognice ":BEAMER_envargs: [plain]" (or ":BEAMER_envargs: 
[shrink=5]")[1].

Thanks,

Bernd

[1] Which is obviously due to "\\begin{frame}[fragile]\\frametitle{%s} 
...".


#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent :exports none
(add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
   ;; beamer class, for presentations
   '("beamer"
      "\\documentclass[11pt]{beamer}\n
            [NO-DEFAULT-PACKAGES]
            [EXTRA]
            \\mode<{{{beamermode}}}>\n
       \\usetheme{{{{beamertheme}}}}\n
       \\institute{{{{beamerinstitute}}}}\n
        \\subject{{{{beamersubject}}}}\n"

      ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")

      ("\\begin{frame}[fragile]\\frametitle{%s}"
        "\\end{frame}"
        "\\begin{frame}[fragile]\\frametitle{%s}"
        "\\end{frame}")))
#+end_src


#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+MACRO: BEAMERMODE presentation
#+MACRO: BEAMERTHEME Madrid
#+MACRO: BEAMERINSTITUTE Research Institute for ???
#+TITLE: xxxxxxxx
#+AUTHOR: Arthur Mueller
#+DATE: March, 28th 2011


#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
#+latex_header: \mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}


* Introduction
** A simple slide
:PROPERTIES:
:BEAMER_env: frame
:BEAMER_envargs: [plain]
:END:
    This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:

- the first, very @important@, point!
- the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
   translates to the Beamer specific /alert/ command for highlighting
   text.


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Re: Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

[Eric S Fraga]

Bernd Weiss <bernd.weiss@uni-koeln.de> writes:

> Dear all,
>
> I am preparing a Beamer presentation and I am having some trouble with
> side effects (?) due to my attempt to customize the LaTeX-export. My
> minimum example can be found below.
>
> The default LaTeX-export does not recognise the '\institute'-option (I
> mean, as far as I know). For that reason, I run "(add-to-list
> org-export-latex-classes ...)". Unfortunately, the export-function
> does no longer recognice ":BEAMER_envargs: [plain]" (or
> ":BEAMER_envargs: [shrink=5]")[1].

yes, that is correct.  the default entry uses =org-beamer-sectioning=
which is where headings are translated to latex section or frame or
block etc entries *and* where the special beamer properties are
processed.   As you have replaced the sectioning section of
=org-export-latex-classes= with your own, you have lost all of that
functionality.

You seem to want to achieve two things:

1. added your macros into the latex preamble, and
2. add the [fragile] option to each frame.

I would suggest you do 1 as you have done but keep org-beamer-sectioning
as the second argument for the org-export-latex-classes entry.  To add
[fragile] to each frame, I would recommend, instead, using some
automated form of input, such as a yasnippet snippet like this one
(untested):

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#name : frame
# --
** ${1:frame title}
   :PROPERTIES:
   :BEAMER_envargs: ${2:[fragile]}
   :END:
   $0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

so that typing "frame" followed by TAB would define a new headline,
prompting for the title and possible arguments (with defaults).

HTH,
eric

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Re: Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

[Bernd Weiss]

Am 24.03.2011 05:16, schrieb Eric S Fraga:
> Bernd Weiss<bernd.weiss@uni-koeln.de>  writes:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am preparing a Beamer presentation and I am having some trouble with
>> side effects (?) due to my attempt to customize the LaTeX-export. My
>> minimum example can be found below.
>>
>> The default LaTeX-export does not recognise the '\institute'-option (I
>> mean, as far as I know). For that reason, I run "(add-to-list
>> org-export-latex-classes ...)". Unfortunately, the export-function
>> does no longer recognice ":BEAMER_envargs: [plain]" (or
>> ":BEAMER_envargs: [shrink=5]")[1].
>
> yes, that is correct.  the default entry uses =org-beamer-sectioning=
> which is where headings are translated to latex section or frame or
> block etc entries *and* where the special beamer properties are
> processed.   As you have replaced the sectioning section of
> =org-export-latex-classes= with your own, you have lost all of that
> functionality.
>
> You seem to want to achieve two things:
>
> 1. added your macros into the latex preamble, and
> 2. add the [fragile] option to each frame.
>
> I would suggest you do 1 as you have done but keep org-beamer-sectioning
> as the second argument for the org-export-latex-classes entry.  To add
> [fragile] to each frame, I would recommend, instead, using some
> automated form of input, such as a yasnippet snippet like this one
> (untested):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #name : frame
> # --
> ** ${1:frame title}
>     :PROPERTIES:
>     :BEAMER_envargs: ${2:[fragile]}
>     :END:
>     $0
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> so that typing "frame" followed by TAB would define a new headline,
> prompting for the title and possible arguments (with defaults).

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your help! Unfortunately, that's not what I was looking for 
and, therefore, rephrased my unclear question ("Specifying 
\institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations"). As pointed out by 
Miklós or Suvayu, the solution was embarrassingly simpel: Just include

#+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA:  \institute{My insitute}

or

#+LaTeX_HEADER: \institute[short name]{My awesome institute}

Anyway, I really appreciate your help!

Bernd

Re: Customizing LaTeX-export, Beamer, \institute, and BEAMER_envargs

[Eric S Fraga]

Bernd Weiss <bernd.weiss@uni-koeln.de> writes:

[...]

> Hi Eric,
>
> Thanks for your help! Unfortunately, that's not what I was looking for
> and, therefore, rephrased my unclear question ("Specifying
> \institute[short]{long] in Beamer presentations"). As pointed out by
> Miklós or Suvayu, the solution was embarrassingly simpel: Just include
>
> #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA:  \institute{My insitute}
>
> or
>
> #+LaTeX_HEADER: \institute[short name]{My awesome institute}

Ah, okay;  I did note, however, that you did seem to be wanting to add
the [fragile] option to every frame.

Glad you got a solution, in any case!

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
: using Org-mode version 7.5 (release_7.5.113.g9010a.dirty)