Re: [O] Beamer specific setupfile?

[Nick Dokos]

[I think I broke the thread - so let me try again]
John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Yeah, I should have just posted an example with an included theme
> instead of the one I usually use. I think I tracked it down. First, I
> added =t= to the list of class options:
> ---
> #+latex_class_options: [t,presentation,bigger]
> ---
> 
> I saw an effect on my frame alignment, which told me things were,
> indeed, being read. It seems the issue was with using
> #+beamer_header_extra. I don't know what that's supposed to be for,
> but it isn't picking up the theme option. Actually... in searching for
> what it's supposed to be used for, I ran across a mailing list post of
> the same problem:
> -- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-09/msg01011.html
> 
> Indeed, ditching beamer_header_extra for the theme setting and just
> using #+latex_header... works.
> 
> Thoughts on fixing this?
> 
> 

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:

> The beamer exporter is searching the original file for #+BEAMER_* stuff, not
> the setup file (and of course it does not find anything interesting there).
> 
> The latex exporter seems to find everything in the setup file however, so 
> there
> must be some mechanism for searching the setup file. If so, it should be
> possible to crib it and copy it into the beamer exporter. But the devil, as 
> the
> saying goes, is in the details...

I think the magic for latex headers happens in org-infile-export-plist:
but the function has not been told about #+BEAMER_* stuff, so it'll need
the addition of a few more cases to handle the beamer stuff.

Nick