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On Nov 29, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:

>
> On Nov 29, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>>
>> On Nov 29, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>
>>> Aloha all,
>>>
>>> Would it make sense to implement Beamer columns with Org-mode  
>>> tables?
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> I cannot see how this would make sense.
>>
>> Maybe you'd like to elaborate?
>>
>> - Carsten
>
> Hi Carsten and Sebastian,
>
> This idea might be nonsense or technically infeasible.  The  
> advantage, if it is one, is that the same org file might export to  
> LaTeX and Beamer with roughly similar results.  If headlines are  
> used below the level of the Beamer frame, then export to LaTeX  
> becomes problematic, or so it seems to me (and perhaps some others,  
> if I've read their posts correctly).   A column-like arrangement in  
> a portion of a LaTeX file is sometimes faked by using  
> \begin{tabular} \end{tabular}, and this naturally brought to mind  
> Org-mode tables.
>
> Apologies if the signal/noise ratio is distressingly low here.


Hi Thomas, thanks for the extra explanations - however, I still don't  
think that this is the way to go.

- Carsten

>
> All the best,
> Tom
>
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>

- Carsten