Adam Spiers <orgm...@adamspiers.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:49:23PM -0300, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote: > > In addition, while I also agree that footnotes shouldn't be in a > > presentation > > they are allowed when working with beamer and may be useful in some cases. > > If > > org-mode export footnotes as beamer notes then some months from now someone > > would be asking here in the mailing-list how to enter a standard footnote > > when > > exporting to beamer. > > I agree - unfortunately there are genuinely sensible uses of footnotes > in presentations. For example, citation of sources for quotations, > data etc. is ideally accomplished by footnotes: they are not used > during the presentation itself, but by distributing paper and/or > electronic copies after the talk, footnotes provide essential > reference data for perusal by the audience at a later date. > I think that's an argument *for* Eric's idea (assuming that the handout includes notes - that's my practice, but maybe not everybody does that, although they *should* :-) ).
In general, I think slides should be very simple: single-level lists, single idea per slide, no footnotes - but I know that generalities like that are just guidelines: meant to be broken, given a good enough cause. > Imagine a slide showing the results of a benchmark, claiming "X is > much faster than Y!" You might want to talk briefly about how the > results were obtained, and about the impact of the results, but you > would also need to be able to tell the audience they could > independently verify the results by obtaining a copy of the slides and > visiting the URL contained in the footnote - especially if the results > are controversial! In this case, it would not matter that the URL was > too small to be legible from the back of the room. > > How does inverting Eric's idea sound: invent a new kind of footnote, let's call it, say, a "pnote", which is treated exactly like a footnote in all exports *except* beamer. In beamer, footnotes end up in the frame and pnotes end up in the notes. Not sure whether the implementation would be as simple as this makes it sound, but who knows?[1] Thanks, Nick [1] Well, OK: Carsten knows... _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
