Re: [beamer] What is the easiest way to inject latex code between block environments?

[Mikhail Titov <mlt@gmx.us>]

On Apr 17, 2012, at 8:23 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:19 PM, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Mikhail Titov <mlt@gmx.us> wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I would like to explicitly define heights for columns that contain blocks to be able to use \vfill [1] in-between blocks. And here comes the problem. I kind of need to inject
>>> 
>>> #+latex: \vfill
>>> 
>>> before new block
>>> 
>>> ** block2
>>> 
>>> but after \end{block} was emitted, not before. Is there an easy way to approach that?
>> 
>> Everything in org-mode gets treated as belonging to the parent
>> headline. I don't think there's an easy way to do this except by
>> tweaking the .tex file after export and re-compiling via LaTeX
>> directly.

That is how I'm proceeding now as I don't have time to hack now:(

>> I could be wrong, but I believe it's the same principle as why the
>> answer to these questions is "No":
>> -- http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#closing-outline-sections

I wonder if a special case can be made via some extra property and some changes to orgmode code (or with hooks?). It should be possible as I need just quite specific command and not "arbitrary" text embedded. 

>> In other words... everything is always in some headline and what
>> you're trying to do is escape a headline to enter text in kind of a
>> "no man's land." Sorry to say, I don't think it's possible.
>> 
> 
> Actually, I was picturing doing this in between /frames/, not blocks.

That is how beamerposter is organized. 

> Since you're in a frame, you can just write the LaTeX syntax directly
> inside of your frame headline?

I was trying to escape to orgmode from plain latex not to return that far back ;)

M