At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:38:46 -0500, Austin Frank wrote: > I have an idea that doesn't yet qualify as a feature request, more like > an idea for discussion. What do people think about the idea of adding > the capability to write inline slides, akin to the way we can currently > write inline TODO items?
Interesting! I am trying to get my mind around this. It is definitely an intriguing idea, putting aside the complexities of implementation. I could see it being useful, along the lines of all the tangling examples in org-babel. Whether I would use something like this or not is difficult to ascertain. I don't need to write long documents like a thesis (any more! although my students do ;-); more importantly, I often will prepare more than one presentation based on a given project and each presentation will be substantially different enough to make it difficult to embed slides. > [...] > The application I have in mind has to do with writing my doctoral > thesis. I know that I'll be writing long chapters; I also know that > I'll have to prepare slides for my public defense. Ideally, during the > writing process I'll be able to notice a series of important points and > drop into an inline slide to jot them down for the talk. Similarly, I > could see wanting to start a section with an overview slide, but not > wanting to alter the structure of the section. Yes, this I can see. However, the type of different content you may wish to attach/embed will depend on its final purpose. That is, in terms of presentations, who will be in the audience? > Since slides are mostly just headlines with special tags and properties, > at the end of the process I could easily selectively export just the > text of the dissertation or just the embedded slides. This begs the question: maybe an "export to org based on tags" function is all that is required? And this is probably already implemented; I hesitate to suggest how or where, given my lack of awareness of all the various multitude of features of org-mode, but I can imagine that sparse trees could be part of any solution? Just some thoughts... eric _______________________________________________ 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
