Re: [O] Problem with beamer export

[John Hendy]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Marvin Doyley <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> This is an interesting bug. When I use the stable version of org i.e. 8.2.1 
> everything works as expected.
>
> To use xelatex I included the following in my .emacs file (some code I picked 
> up several years ago
>         (setq org-latex-pdf-process (list
>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory 
> %o %f"
>           "xelatex -shell-escape -interaction nonstopmode -output-directory 
> %o %f"
>         )) ;; for multiple passes
>

Based on my process, is it sufficient to have not reproduced your
commands? Or can I just use the command you typed above to give it
another whirl from the raw .tex file? On that note:
- Is this an issue of converting Org syntax -> .tex syntax? OR...
- Is this an issue of the .tex file -> xelatex -> .pdf?

Re-thinking about your issue, it seems it's the former. In other
words, if the .tex file doesn't have \frame, that's something wrong
with Org -> .tex, not to do with the engine, right? If so, I'd
probably look at diagnosing your Beamer definition, but I don't know
how to.

> With regards to the split beamer theme this is included in beamer. I am using 
> texlive 2013 on the mac.
>

Sorry... I was unclear. I'm aware of the various themes. What I
*didn't* understand is why your output said it was *using* the split
them.

Annnnddd... scrolled back up and just now caught that you included
your beamer_header file that you included, which indeed says to use
the split theme. Sorry about that!


John

> thanks
> M
>
> On Oct 6, 2013, at 9:23 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Marvin Doyley <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> For more clarification
>>> Here is a simple test file
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I can't current reproduce. I don't use xelatex, so I did `tlmgr
>> install xetex` and the same for `xetex-def`. I wasn't sure if Org
>> would pick up to use xelatex or not, so I took your example, exported
>> to PDF via `C-c C-e l P` (for LaTeX Beamer) and then opened a terminal
>> and did `xelatex test.tex`, the file Org created from my test.org file
>> containing your contents.
>>
>> I attached the result.
>>
>> Some observations:
>> - I noticed your latex output has beamer using the split theme. Where
>> is it picking that?
>> - You have a line in your #+ headers: `#+BEAMER_HEADER:
>> \input{header_beamer} \date{}`. I don't have that file so I'm not sure
>> what it does. I just removed it.
>> - Here is my .emacs Beamer setting (default from the Org 8.0 new
>> Beamer Worg page):
>>
>> #+begin_src .emacs
>>
>> (add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
>>             '("beamer"
>>               "\\documentclass\[presentation\]\{beamer\}"
>>               ("\\section\{%s\}" . "\\section*\{%s\}")
>>               ("\\subsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsection*\{%s\}")
>>               ("\\subsubsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsubsection*\{%s\}")))
>>
>> #+end_src
>>
>> Again, see if the attached looks reasonable. Feel free to tell me how
>> to more properly export via xelatex if you want someone to try and
>> reproduce. I'm just not familiar with it at all, so I wasn't really
>> sure bit gave it the 'ole college try.
>>
>>
>> John
>> <test.pdf>
>