Hello:

I was happy to see a simple formula for exporting to Beamer.  The following worked initially.  However, this initialization routine was able to run only when org-latex had already been loaded.  

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

Here's the minimal.emacs - you'll need to adjust the load path for your
setup:

,----
| (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/src/emacs/org/org-mode/lisp"))
| (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . org-mode))
| (require 'org-install)
| (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
| (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
| (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
| (setq org-log-done (quote time))
| (setq org-log-into-drawer t)
|
| (load "org-exp")
| (load "org-latex")
|
| (add-to-list 'org-export-latex-classes
|              '("beamer"
|                "\\documentclass[11pt]{beamer}
| \\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
| \\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
| \\usepackage{hyperref}
| \\usepackage{verbatim}
| \\setbeameroption{show notes}
| \\usetheme{Goettingen}
| \\useoutertheme{infolines}"
|                ("\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}\\begin{itemize}" "\\end{itemize}\\end{frame}"
|                 "\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}\\begin{itemize}" "\\end{itemize}\\end{frame}")
|                ("\\item{%s}" . "\\item*{%s}")
|                )
|              )
`----


Is it possible to put this inside of a hook (say, when org-latex was loaded, or when the document class was beamer during the export process)?

Emacs just reports the following when this code is included into the init file:

       Symbol's value as variable is void: org-export-latex-classes

After explicitly loading the library "org-latex" the code is executed and the procedure works for exporting the example file---given that the latex code must be cleaned up. 

I haven't yet tried the following as a heading line:

       #+OPTIONS: toc:nil

Would that solve the problem you reported?

Alan


 
and here's slides.org:

,----
| #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
| #+TITLE: Example presentation
| #+AUTHOR: Nick Dokos \\ $<$\href{mailto:nicholas.dokos@hp.com}{nicholas.dokos@hp.com}$>$
| #+EMAIL: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
| #+OPTIONS: toc:nil H:2
|
| * Why
| ** Reason 1.
|    Text explaining reason #1.
| ** Reason 2.
|    ... more explanations.
| ** Reason 3.
|    Blah, blah, blah.
|
| ** Reason 4.
|    Why not?
|
| * What
| ** First piece.
| ** Second piece.
| ** Third piece.
| ** Fourth piece.
`----


Thank you for this helpful advice.

Alan Davis

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,  but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing---that's what counts.

   ----Richard Feynman