On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > Matt Price <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: >> Unfortunatey, I'm exporting to HTML (deck.js) not Beamer. I guess I >> still on't understand how to use beamer -- I tried it just now and it >> seemed to produce a very plain pdf, not a slideshow at all. sigh. > > It may or may not have worked. I cannot tell from your comment. It > depends on what you mean by "plain PDF" and "slideshow". > > Beamer is a document style and a collection of macros for LaTeX. The > output of LaTeX will be a PDF file typically. For a beamer document, > the PDF output is a set of pages where each page corresponds to a single > "slide". The slide show is the sequence of these PDF pages. Whether > this corresponds to your meaning of a slide show, I cannot tell. > > I hope that makes some sort of sense...
Yes, it does make sense, thank you Eric. The PDF document produced was not a one-heading-per-page slideshow, but a more ordinary PDF with continuous flow from page to page. I have no doubt there are numerous errors in my setup -- I don't use LaTex at all so I haven't realy investigated what woud be necesary to fix them. Thanks! Matt > > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.50.1, Org release_8.1.1-17-gf76e8c >
