[Orgmode] Re: New beamer support

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Eric, Christian, Carsten and all,

Eric S Fraga wrote:
> At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:46:45 +0100, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>>
>> The few things I'm tackling right now are:
>>
>> - How to get a TOC with a frame title, without having to add it explicitly?
>
> I think you need to add it explicitly with \tableofcontents? In beamer, I
> simply typically have
>
> \begin{frame}<beamer>
>   \frametitle{Table of contents}
>   \tableofcontents
> \end{frame}

I guess I wasn't clear...

If I use the option `toc' for the export:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+OPTIONS:   toc:t
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

then I get a slide with the table of contents. Automatically. The only
"criticism" I did is that there was no title to the generated frame.

Hence, the workaround was setting the `toc' option to `nil' and adding such a
code by myself:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+BEAMER: \frame{\frametitle{Outline}\tableofcontents}
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

But better (IMHO) would be that such a code gets inserted automatically (with
a frame title set, for example, to `Outline') when the `toc' export option is
set to `t', and when we're in a beamer class.

Is it better expressed?


>> - How to get the TOC repeated when changing of section, with the new item
>>   highlighted? See my manual essay ;-)
>
> Again, beamer supports this easily so I would suggest simply adding some
> direct latex code at the start of your org file. The latex code I use is:
>
> \AtBeginSection[]
> {
>   \begin{frame}
>     \frametitle{Topic}
>     \tableofcontents[currentsection]
>   \end{frame}
> }
>
> You could simply put this in one line with #+latex_header: as in (untested):
>
> #+latex_header: \AtBeginSection[]{  \begin{frame}    \frametitle{Topic}    
> \tableofcontents[currentsection]  \end{frame}}

Better is:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+BEGIN_BEAMER
\AtBeginSection[] % Do nothing for \section*
{
  \begin{frame}<beamer>
    \frametitle{Outline}
    \tableofcontents[currentsection]
  \end{frame}
}
#+END_BEAMER
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks Eric and Christian for your input on this!

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban