Re: Macro expansion to control beamer template

["Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Florian,

Florian Adamsky wrote:
> at the moment I revise my course lectures and of course I use org-mode
> for that. I was searching for an easy way to create fullframe. After
> searching a bit in the mailing list, I found out that the 8.0-pre with
> its new beamer exporter already has this functionality. Therefore I
> switch to the current git-version. Wonderful work by the way! 
>
> I created a beamer template file that I control with macros. My
> org-mode config file has the following snippet:
>
> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>     (list "beamer" 
>       (file-string (concat custom-basedir "templates/beamer.tex")) 
>       '("\\section{%s}" ."\\section*{%s}") 
>       '("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
>       '("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")))
>
>
> The beamer.tex file contains snippets like that:
>
> \documentclass[xetex,aspectratio={{{BEAMERRATIO}}}]{beamer}
>
> [...]
>
> \newcommand{\myEmail}{\url{{{{EMAIL}}}}}
> \newcommand{\myUrl}{\url{{{{URL}}}}}
> \newcommand{\myShortConf}{{{{SHORTCONF}}}}
> \newcommand{\myLongConf}{{{{LONGCONF}}}}
>
> This does not work anymore. After searching a bit in the ml archive I
> have read that the macro is not as powerful as before. The macro works
> only in the org file and not in my template file. What is the best way
> to work around this problem?

Would an INCLUDE in the Org file do the work for you?

Would you agree with such a solution (having to explicitly put one extra line
in all your Org Beamer files)?

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban