From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Antony Ware <aware@ucalgary.ca>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: beamer export
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:40:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EA143620-130F-42C6-A69B-2E4BB083179D@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14645044-61C0-4D6E-9BB1-71300E6AE5C6@ucalgary.ca>
Hi Antony,
thanks, this is fixed now (I hope...)
- Carsten
On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:35 PM, Antony Ware wrote:
> Hi Carsten - thanks for looking into this. I pulled the latest
> version and the problem was still present.
>
> Here's a minimal setup.
>
> I run
>
> /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l test.el example.org
>
> with test.el containing
>
> (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org/lisp" load-path))
> (setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/org/contrib/lisp" load-
> path))
> (require 'org-install)
> ;; The following lines are always needed. Choose your own keys.
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))
> (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link)
> (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
> (global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
> ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
> ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
> ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
> '(case-fold-search nil))
>
> and the example.org containing the org document at the end of http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html#Beamer-class-export
> :
>
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
> #+TITLE: Example Presentation
> #+AUTHOR: Carsten Dominik
> #+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
> #+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
> #+BEAMER_HEADER_EXTRA: \usetheme{Madrid}\usecolortheme{default}
> #+COLUMNS: %35ITEM %10BEAMER_env(Env) %10BEAMER_envargs(Args)
> %4BEAMER_col(Col) %8BEAMER_extra(Ex)
>
> * This is the first structural section
>
> ** Frame 1 \\ with a subtitle
> *** Thanks to Eric
> Fraga :BMCOL:B_block:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :BEAMER_env: block
> :BEAMER_envargs: C[t]
> :BEAMER_col: 0.5
> :END:
> for the first viable beamer setup in Org
> *** Thanks to everyone
> else :BMCOL:B_block:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :BEAMER_col: 0.5
> :BEAMER_env: block
> :BEAMER_envargs: <2->
> :END:
> for contributing to the discussion
> **** This will be formatted as a beamer
> note :B_note:
> ** Frame 2 \\ where we will not use columns
> ***
> Request :B_block:
> Please test this stuff!
> :PROPERTIES:
> :BEAMER_env: block
> :END:
> Cheers,
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> On 2010-08-19, at 3:06 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>>
>> On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Antony Ware wrote:
>>
>>> I've been having a problem exporting to beamer. I've now found the
>>> problem and fixed it, but it was (to my mind) something pretty
>>> obscure, and I think it might be of interest to the list, at least
>>> as a salutary tale.
>>>
>>> When I opened an org file such as the example beamer presentation
>>> from the manual (section 12.6.6) and executed C-c C-e d, it kept
>>> generating a .tex file with an article document class, instead of
>>> the expected beamer class.
>>>
>>> After a few days of frustrated searching through the manual and
>>> tutorials, and this list, for any clues, I found some advice to run
>>> something like
>>>
>>> /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l test.el
>>>
>>> with a series of versions of test.el progressively approximating
>>> my .emacs file. I was expecting the problem to lie in one of my org-
>>> or latex-specific settings, but eventually found the cause of the
>>> problem to be that the variable
>>>
>>> case-fold-search
>>>
>>> was being set to nil (its default value) as one of my custom-set-
>>> variables. I don't remember why. Anyway, according to the
>>> information from C-h v, this makes the setting buffer-local, and for
>>> some reason that fouled up the beamer export. When I commented out
>>> that line, everything worked as advertised.
>>>
>>> I'd be interested to hear from anyone who could shed light on why
>>> that might be.
>>
>> Well,
>>
>> apparently Org does do a search that relies on case-fold-search
>> being t. Normally when this is the case
>> I try to set this explicitly to t during the function call.
>> Can you make a minimal example with your setup and a small file which
>> reproduced the error?
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-20 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 15:16 beamer export Antony Ware
2010-08-19 21:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-19 21:20 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-19 21:35 ` Antony Ware
2010-08-20 6:40 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-08-20 16:40 ` Nick Dokos
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