Re: [Orgmode] Misleading error message from beamer export

[Carsten Dominik]

Hi Ben,

I don't think

 #+LaTeX_CLASSS_OPTIONS: [presentation]

can mess with org-export-latex-classes.  You must hve been missing  
something else.
Try to re-introduce the line - I am sure it will work just fine.

- Carsten

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Ben Smith wrote:

> Trying my first beamer document
> I was getting this error message:
>
> No definition for class `beamer' in `org-export-latex-classes'
>
> I tried Carston's example.. same error.
>
> Looking at the org-export-latex-classes, I found indeed that there  
> was not specification for 'beamer.' However, if removed  
> customization for this setting, the class appeared.
>
> So I searched and searched through all of my init.el but found  
> nothing that might have overwritten the export-latex-classes.
>
> Restarted emacs and tried Carston's example.. IT WORKED just fine.
> Sure enough, beamer was defined.
>
> Conclusion: it must be something in my own document that was mucking  
> up the class list.
>
> And it was here:
>
>  #+LaTeX_CLASSS_OPTIONS: [presentation]
>
> see the error? CLASSS (too many S's)
>
> It only took 2 hours to figure this one out.
> -ben
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- Carsten