Hi Eric

I've just tried with the totally minimal customization you suggest below -
and your  two-column slide which I had already set up
( I haven't had time to go to the website yet and download the one you
suggest). Now columns are working  in some fashion
but apparently not blocks.  The two column slide is spread across two slides
each with one column.

I'll work on it some more later - and test your slide on the website.

So something else in my emacs customization - which is pretty extensive but
(since yesterday)
has nothing other than vanilla for org-mode (just paths and your
org-emphasis-alist ) -
is causing a problem in producing the columns. I'll go through this later
too and see if I can find it.

Thanks

Bill



On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Bill Moran <bill1moran@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have installed the latest (git) version of org-mode and have stripped
> out all
> > customizations from  I think. I've copied Eric's two column example from
> here
> >
> > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer/tutorial.html
> >
> > with the headers given there. And I can't get either blocks or columns to
> work.
> > There is no block or column command in the latex produced from the org
> > file.
>
> I have no idea what is going on but I can confirm that something is
> missing.  If I start emacs with -Q, execute the following
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/git/org-mode/lisp")
> (require 'org-install)
> (require 'org-latex)
> #+end_src
>
> visit the small beamer test file I sent to the list earlier today and
> export to latex, I get only the title page and the empty outline.
> Nothing else.
>
> If I start up with my full initialisation, everything works just fine.
>
> I've gone through my initialisation by eye and cannot see anything that
> would make a difference.  I will need to go through this more carefully
> as I have many customisations, not only for org...
>
> > I guess it's something to do with the value of the variable
> >
> > org-export-latex-classes
>
> I don't think so.  Although I do customise mine, if I include this in
> the above test (-Q start), it makes no difference.  I do not change the
> "beamer" entry in any case.
>
> I will play around later tonight and will get back to you then.
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1
> : using Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.231.ge879)
>



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Bill  Moran
Melbourne Systems Laboratory
Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC 3010
Australia
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