On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:34 PM= , Bill Moran <= bill1moran@gmail.com> wrote:

HI Eric, John, Jeff and Birch

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

>
> My immediate response would be to ask why you aren't using \maketi= tle
> given that the command is beamer-aware? =A0That is, \maketitle will cr= eate
> a title page whose format is defined by the beamer theme you have
> selected. =A0Otherwise, you could always customise
> =3Dorg-export-latex-title-command=3D to nothing and use direct latex c= ode to
> do what you want:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--= -
> #+begin_latex
> \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame}
> #+end_latex
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--= -
>
> I've not tried this.
>
> > 2. \alert command does not work - even with the additions to .ema= cs
> > suggested here:
> > =A0http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org/msg21507.html<= /a>
> > (And there are no errors in running the .emacs file)
> > Always the @ symbol appears in the latex created from org as @. >
> Can you tell us exactly what you have done to customise the relevant > variables and where you have done these customisations? =A0Difficult t= o
> help without this information unfortunately. =A0While we're at it,= org and
> emacs version information is also helpful.
>

>

Thanks for all of your responses and for taking the time to help me. I'= ll try to
answer your questions. As far as possible I =A0use the "stock" ub= untu (maverick -
10.10) repositories for emacs and its associated software. So I'm using= emacs
23.1.1 and org-mode 6.36c. The version of beamer I'm using, as describe= d in the
repositories, is latex-beamer 3.07-2ubuntu1. I am aware =A0that there are m= ore
recent versions available =A0- particularly of org-mode - but was trying to= keep
things simple.

Let me also say that my aim was to arrive at an understanding of =A0how to = use
org-mode for slide creation - since I do a lot of that - rather than to com= pose
a specific set of slides. I realise that I could use direct latex code to s= olve
the problems but that wasn't the point of the exercise.

I've read more since I sent the email and now realise that the issues I= brought
up have been discussed earlier and where I can I've tried to use the pr= oposed
solutions. In particular I have this in my .emacs:

(setq org-emphasis-alist (quote (("*" bold "" = "")
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("/&q= uot; italic "" "")
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("_&q= uot; underline "" "")
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("=3D= " org-code "<code>" "</code>" verbatim= )
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("~&q= uot; org-verbatim "<code>" "</code>" verbat= im)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("+&q= uot; (:strike-through t) "<del>" "</del>")<= br> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ("@&q= uot; org-warning "" "")))
=A0 =A0 =A0org-export-latex-emphasis-alist (quote
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 (("*" "\\textbf{%s}" nil)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("/" "\\emph{%s}" nil)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("_" "\\underline{%s}" nil)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("+" "\\texttt{%s}" nil)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("=3D" "\\verb=3D%s=3D" nil)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("~" "\\verb~%s~" t)
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = =A0 =A0("@" "\\alert{%s}" nil)))
=A0 =A0 =A0)

from a solution to the @ problem proposed by Eric somewhere. And I understa= nd
that I can use \maketitle normally to produce a title page in beamer - just=
tried on a hand-crafted (in emacs) =A0latex-beamer file using my set up.
To keep this email as brief as possible, let's take this snippet (verba= tim) of
an =A0example from Eric:

----------------------------------start-----------------------------------<= br> #+TITLE: =A0 =A0 Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode
#+AUTHOR: =A0 =A0Eric S Fraga
#+EMAIL: =A0 =A0 e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk=
#+DATE: =A0 =A0 =A02010-03-30 Tue
#+DESCRIPTION:
#+KEYWORDS:
#+LANGUAGE: =A0en
#+OPTIONS: =A0 H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t #+OPTIONS: =A0 TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc<= br> #+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0
path:http://or= gmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:
#+LINK_HOME:

#+startup: oddeven

#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger]
#+latex_header: \mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2

#+COLUMNS: %20ITEM %13BEAMER_env(Env) %6BEAMER_envargs(Args) %4BEAMER_col(C= ol)
%7BEAMER_extra(Extra)

* Methodology

** A simple slide
This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
- the first, very @important@, point!
- the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
=A0translates to the Beamer specific /alert/ command for highlighting
=A0text.
The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
include sub-lists.
---------------------------end----------------------------------------

When I do "C-c C-e p" to create the pdf file I get 3 slides. The = first is a
title page but has no title - only the date. The second is an outline (toc)=
slide as expected and the third is again as expected except that @important= @ is
not rendered as \alert{important}.

The latex created =A0by "C-c C-e l" is

---------------------------start---------------------------------------- % Created 2011-01-20 Thu 08:18
\documentclass[bigger]{beamer}

=A0 =A0 =A0\mode<{{{beamermode}}}>

=A0 =A0 =A0\usetheme{{{{beamertheme}}}}

=A0 =A0 =A0\usecolortheme{{{{beamercolortheme}}}}

=A0 =A0 =A0\beamertemplateballitem

=A0 =A0 =A0\setbeameroption{show notes}
=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage{hyperref}

=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage{color}
=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage{listings}
=A0 =A0 =A0\lstset{numbers=3Dnone,language=3D[ISO]C++,tabsize=3D4,
=A0frame=3Dsingle,
=A0basicstyle=3D\small,
=A0showspaces=3Dfalse,showstringspaces=3Dfalse,
=A0showtabs=3Dfalse,
=A0keywordstyle=3D\color{blue}\bfseries,
=A0commentstyle=3D\color{red},
=A0}

=A0 =A0 =A0\usepackage{verbatim}

=A0 =A0 =A0\institute{{{{beamerinstitute}}}}

=A0 =A0 =A0 \subject{{{{beamersubject}}}}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{soul}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{marvosym}
\usepackage{wasysym}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\tolerance=3D1000
\mode<beamer>{\usetheme{Madrid}}
\providecommand{\alert}[1]{\textbf{#1}}

\title{Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode}
\author{Eric S Fraga}
\date{2010-03-30 Tue}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Outline}
\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\tableofcontents
\end{frame}

\section{Methodology}
\label{sec-1}
\begin{frame}[fragile]\frametitle{A simple slide}
\label{sec-1_1}

This slide consists of some text with a number of bullet points:
\begin{itemize}
\item the first, very @important@, point!
\item the previous point shows the use of the special markup which
=A0translates to the Beamer specific \emph{alert} command for highlighting=
=A0text.
\end{itemize}

The above list could be numbered or any other type of list and may
include sub-lists.
\end{frame}

\end{document}
----------------------------------end-----------------------------------
and running pdflatex on this produces an identical result to "C-c C-e = p" on the
org file - as it should.

I'm not sure I've answered all of your questions but perhaps this i= s enough to
suggest a solution or refine the questions.

Many thanks for your time!

Bill

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