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Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-beamer bug


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: org-beamer bug
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:30:52 +0100


On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:00 PM, Jason Dunsmore wrote:

Thanks for the explanation.

The documentation is confusing.

If this property is set, the entry will also get a `:B_environment:'
tag to make this visible.  This tag has no semantic meaning, it is
only a visual aid.

I thought there was actually a `:B_environment:' tag.  I also didn't
know that this was referring to auto-selecting the tag when using the
PROPERTIES selection interface (C-c C-c inside a PROPERTIES drawer).

For that part of the documentation, I would suggest:

``If this property is set using C-c C-c inside the properties drawer,
 the entry will also get an environment tag (eg. :B_block:) to make
 this visible. This tag has no semantic meaning, it is only a visual
 aid.''

The org-beamer-set-environment-tag docstring states:

``Set an environment tag, to determine the beamer environment to be used.
 This makes use of the fast tag selection interface.''

But it doesn't determine the beamer environment to be used.  I would
suggest instead:

``Set a beamer environment tag using the fast tag selection interface.
 This is only a visual aid to indicate the beamer environment
 configured in the :BEAMER_env: property.''

What is the point of having an interface to select the beamer
environment tags (C-c C-b) if they are auto-generated?

Hi Jason, the documentation is indeed not very clear on this, also because the background is confusing:

1. Only the property counts, the tag is visual and has no semantic meaning 2. I am using a property because all the other beamer stuff is also properties
3. To make selecting the correct environment very convenient and fast,
I am using a special version of the tag interface which will change both
   the tag and the property value.

I'll see if I can make the documentation clearer here. In fact, even the function name org-beamer-set-environment-tag is bad, and I have just changed it to org-beamer-select-environment'.

While this does improve the documentation, I still think that more extensive documentation, examples and tutorial for the beamer support would be very good to have on Worg, and I have not lost hope that someone will pick up this task.


Also, the example from
http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html shows a :B_block: tag
in use without the :BEAMER_env: property.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** Request :B_block:
        Please test this stuff!
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

This should be:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** Request :B_block:
        :PROPERTIES:
        :BEAMER_env: block
        :END:
        Please test this stuff!
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Indeed, thanks for catching this documentation bug.


Did org-beamer previously support configuring beamer environments via
tags?

Yes, for a short time

 If so, why was it removed?  It seems like a nice feature.

Because we added much more functionality, all of which was using properties.

Regards

- Carsten





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