Re: Org mode 8.2.5h and emacs-24.3.1: exporting org-beamer presentation doesn't break presentation in slides

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

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Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Suhas,
>
>> Yes, I downloaded the same file and tried again and got the following debug trace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "PDF file ./presentation-1.pdf wasn't produced: Runaway argument")
>
> That message is indicating an error during the LaTeX -> PDF step.
>
> Why don't you take a look at the presentation-1.tex file and see where
> things are going wrong.
>
> You can probably reproduce this typeset the file (outside of emacs)
>   pdflatex presentation-1.tex
>

That's indeed the best approach to debug such problems. FWIW, I also had
no trouble exporting it to PDF. If you still have problems, post the
presentation-1.tex file that is produced. Or you can do the comparison
with the one I got (attached):


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% Created 2014-07-14 Mon 17:04
\documentclass[presentation]{beamer}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\tolerance=1000
\usetheme{default}
\author{Nick Dokos}
\date{\today}
\title{presentation-1}
\begin{document}

\maketitle


\begin{frame}[label=sec-1]{What is Beamer?}
\begin{itemize}
\item \LaTeX{} styles for presentations
\item Exports to PowerPoint-style presentation format
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[fragile,label=sec-2]{What is Org-mode?}
 \begin{itemize}
\item Emacs major-mode for organized thought
\item Spiritual successor to \texttt{outline-mode}
\item Supports wide variety of markup
\begin{itemize}
\item \emph{italic}, \alert{bold}, \texttt{code}, \verb~verbatim~, etc.
\item Inline \LaTeX{} (including math!)
\end{itemize}
\item Can export to \LaTeX{}, HTML, and other formats
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}[label=sec-3]{How Do I Work This Thing?}
\begin{itemize}
\item Edit text
\item Export to PDF
\begin{itemize}
\item Intermediate \LaTeX{} file is created and saved
\item This allows all the fine-grained tweaking of \LaTeX{} -- optionally
\end{itemize}
\item Unfortunately, the difficult bit remains: giving the presentation
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
% Emacs 24.4.50.2 (Org mode 8.2.7b)
\end{document}

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> Runway LaTeX arguments usually signify something like this (closing
> curly brace missing).
>
> ,----
> | \documentclass{article}
> | 
> | \begin{document}
> | 
> | \section{Runaway
> | 
> | \end{document}
> `----
>
> Sorry, I don't have any more time to spend on this.  Maybe someone else
> will be able to help.
>

--
Nick