Re: [Orgmode] Beamer support - 2nd round

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Eric,

On Dec 4, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> At Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:10:44 +0100,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> > after carefully listening to all your comments and thinking
> > things through more thoroughly, here is now my second attempt
> > to define beamer support in Org-mode.
>
> Carsten,
>
> Thanks for this!  After learning a bit about git branches (more than I
> probably wanted to know ;-) and a bit more about org mode columns
> view, I can say that I like what you have done.  I've been playing
> with your sample file for a short while and it looks a good design
> which seems to support everything /I/ would want and does so in an
> easy way (especially the combination of the new C-c C-b special
> org-beamer command and columns view).
>
> I've run into a few niggles but I need to play some more (probably
> over the weekend) to see whether some of them are my fault or due to
> bugs in the code.  However, some immediate niggles or suggestions are:
>
> - I need to be able to specify arguments for columns (i.e. the
>  environment, not specific columns), specifically
>  often [t] to make two columns align vertically

Yes, this is a problem.  YOu can specify arguments for the columns  
environment if you create it explicitly, i.e. with a headline with  
BEAMER_env set to "columns".  But I can see that it would be good to  
be able to set an argument also when creating the environment  
implicitly.  I'll think of something.

> - I don't understand what the difference between opt and envargs is.
>  In fact, I see no reference to BEAMER_opt in the document you wrote
>  yet your example has opt as one of the column view specifications.

opt is obsolete, I had three separate properties opt, ovl, and dovl
at some point (tried many different things during the last week),
but I decided to lump them all into one, envargs.

> - it would be nice if when a column heading is also a block heading,
>  that the tags generated (which, by the way, is a really nice
>  feature) include both block and column tags to make it easy to spot
>  the column aspect.

Hmm, I agree that this would be useful.  You mean if a heading has both
BEAMER_env and BEAMER_col set....

> You'll probably be hearing from me soon again!
>
> Oh, and thanks for the separate email showing me how to do my page 100
> with the new setup.  How to do it was actually quite clear from the
> example you gave in the other message.  Very straightforward and does
> work nicely.

Good.

- Carsten

> Thanks again,
> eric

- Carsten