Re: [Orgmode] Re: Columns with LaTeX beamer export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jul 7, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> > the only way to understand this paragraph is historical.
>
> I guessed it, thanks for making that clear.
>
> > In the early days of BEAMER export, Eric Fraga invented a way to make
> > columns using an additional level of outline structure, just for
> > making the columns.
> >
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/19895/focus=19895
>
> Interesting.
>
> > This worked, but made it difficult to export this file in any other
> > way, because of the extra structure.  This was overcome with the
> > BEAMER_col property, and this is what this paragraph and the phrase
> > "without additional structure" is referring to.
>
> Ah, ok.  So now you don't need an extra outline structure for making a
> *columns* environment, but you still need it for ending the last
> *column* and starting a new one.
>
> I've though I could go without the latter, too.  That would be good  
> for
> documents you export as presentation but also as article handout.

I guess you could do it with something like

#+BEAMER: {}\begin{column}

....

#+BEAMER: {}\end{column}

Or, maybe you can talk org-special-blocks.el (contrib dir) into
helping you with this...

- Carsten