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Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion
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Sebastien Vauban |
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Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion |
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Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:45:51 +0100 |
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Hi Rasmus,
Rasmus wrote:
> James Harkins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Btw, *who* preferred \alert? (Orwell, Politics and the English Language:
>> "Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active.")
>
> I prefer alert. See the Beamer manual (texdoc beamer in texlive) on
> change of style and how to use alert (e.g. alert on one particular
> (sub)slide of a "multipage slide"). It's the Beamer way. Surely it
> cannot be a bad thing?
>
>> Still, I wonder if there is a way to make the new backend less unfriendly
>> toward lists. It's an interesting philosophical question: In what cases is
>> it better for the tool to adapt to the users' wishes, versus cases where
>> the tool should encourage (Are blocks in the result actually better than
>> lists? Who says so, and why should I take his or her word for it?)
>
> Org has many dedicated list symbols namely white space and one of
> {[-+*], [0-9][.)]}. Why should a headline be converted to a list? It
> was always awkward to me.
As a reminder, the conversion of headlines to lists is what "daily" happens
within common Org files converted to LaTeX documents: just play with the H
option, and you'll see your deeper levels converted to LaTeX lists.
So, this ain't specific to Beamer.
Best regards,
Seb
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Sebastien Vauban
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, (continued)
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/02/07
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Rasmus, 2013/02/07
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/02/07
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Rasmus, 2013/02/07
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/02/08
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Eric S Fraga, 2013/02/08
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, James Harkins, 2013/02/05
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Eric S Fraga, 2013/02/05
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Rasmus, 2013/02/06
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Suvayu Ali, 2013/02/06
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion,
Sebastien Vauban <=
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/02/06
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, James Harkins, 2013/02/06
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Eric S Fraga, 2013/02/05
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Eric S Fraga, 2013/02/05
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Nicolas Goaziou, 2013/02/05
- Re: [O] New exporter, beamer confusion, Eric S Fraga, 2013/02/05