Recently, in September, there was a discussion about exporting org files to latex using the beamer class and generating slides with multiple columns:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17546 No solution was presented at that time but I think I've managed to create one that is quite reasonable. I define a beamer entry in org-export-latex-classes which has the following definitions for the different headings in an org-mode file: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}") ("\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}" "\\end{frame}" "\\begin{frame}\\frametitle{%s}" "\\end{frame}") ("\\begin{columns} \% %s" "\\end{columns}" "\\begin{columns} \% %s" "\\end{columns}") ("\\begin{column}{%s\\textwidth}" "\\end{column}" "\\begin{column}{%s\\textwidth}" "\\end{column}") --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Then, if I have a 3rd level heading (whose actual text is ignored), multiple columns mode is entered and the level 4 headings indicate the widths (relative to \textwidth although obviously one could generalise this) of each subsequent column. *Note*: for this to work, you have to specify H:4 in the document OPTIONS or else the 4th level headings are turned into items in an itemized list. So, for instance, this will generate a slide with two columns of text (noting that I use odd levels only for my headings): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- # -*- coding: utf-8; -*- #+TITLE: Beamer column test #+AUTHOR: Eric #+OPTIONS: H:4 num:t toc:nil \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t #+OPTIONS: TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer * Main heading *** An interesting slide ***** columns (this text is ignored) ******* 0.3 - Some text on the left of the slide - make sure we have at least two bullet points - this is a narrow column ******* 0.7 - text on the right side of the slide - and more - and even more - and this is a much wider column --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I can now create the slides for presentations and lectures completely within org-mode so I'm a very happy camper! eric _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
