Re: BEAMER_act property documented in ox-beamer.el

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> On Tuesday, 17 Jun 2014 at 22:01, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to understand the sentence from ox-beamer.el:
>>
>>     Headlines also support the "BEAMER_act" property.  [It] is translated as an
>>     overlay/action specification (or a default overlay specification when
>>     enclosed within square brackets).
>>
>> Rewritten, it says that that property is translated as:
>>
>> - a default overlay specification *when enclosed within square brackets*, or
>> - an overlay/action specification *when NOT enclosed within square brackets*.
>>
>> Though, I don't understand exactly what that *default* specification really
>> means. Moreover, I can't get it: without square brackets, PDFLaTeX becomes
>> crazy...
>
> I agree with you: I am not entirely sure what a *default* specification
> means.

See Beamer class user guide about "\begin{frame}" syntax (II.8, p. 59 on
version 3.20). Basically, default specification also applies to all
commands and environments within the frame, as long as they do not
provide their own specification.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou