Re: [Orgmode] beamer export

[Carsten Dominik]

On Aug 19, 2010, at 5:16 PM, Antony Ware wrote:

> I've been having a problem exporting to beamer. I've now found the  
> problem and fixed it, but it was (to my mind) something pretty  
> obscure, and I think it might be of interest to the list, at least  
> as a salutary tale.
>
> When I opened an org file such as the example beamer presentation  
> from the manual (section 12.6.6) and executed C-c C-e d, it kept  
> generating a .tex file with an article document class, instead of  
> the expected beamer class.
>
> After a few days of frustrated searching through the manual and  
> tutorials, and this list, for any clues, I found some advice to run  
> something like
>
> /usr/bin/emacs -Q -l test.el
>
> with a series of versions of test.el progressively approximating  
> my .emacs file. I was expecting the problem to lie in one of my org-  
> or latex-specific settings, but eventually found the cause of the  
> problem to be that the variable
>
> case-fold-search
>
> was being set to nil (its default value) as one of my custom-set- 
> variables. I don't remember why. Anyway, according to the  
> information from C-h v, this makes the setting buffer-local, and for  
> some reason that fouled up the beamer export. When I commented out  
> that line, everything worked as advertised.
>
> I'd be interested to hear from anyone who could shed light on why  
> that might be.

Well,

apparently Org does do a search that relies on case-fold-search
being t.  Normally when this is the case
I try to set this explicitly to t during the function call.
Can you make a minimal example with your setup and a small file which  
reproduced the error?

- Carsten