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Recipes for presentations with beamer latex using emacs org-mode

I wrote some recipes for creating the kinds of slides I need with emacs org-mode export to beamer latex.

Update: Read ox-beamer [1] to see how to adapt this to work with the new export engine in org-mode 0.8.

PDF recipes [2] The recipes as PDF (21 slides, 247 KiB) [2]

org-mode file [3] The org-mode sources (12.2 KiB) [3]

Below is an html export of the org-mode file. Naturally it does not look as impressive as the real slides, but it captures all the sources, so I think it has some value.

Note: To be able to use the simple block-creation commands, you need to add #+startup: beamer to the header of your file or explicitely activate org-beamer with M-x org-beamer-mode.

«I love your presentation»:

PS: I hereby allow use of these slides under any of the licenses used by worg [4] and/or the emacs wiki [5].

1 Introduction

1.1 Usage

1.1.1 (configure your emacs, see Basic Configuration at the end)

1.1.2 C-f <file which ends in .org>

1.1.3 Insert heading:

Hello World

#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2

* Hello
** Hello GNU
Nice to see you!

1.1.4 M-x org-export-as-pdf

done: Your first org-beamer presentation.

1.2 org-mode + beamer = love

1.2.1 Code    BMCOL

Recipes
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
* Introduction
** org-mode + beamer =  love
*** Code :BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_col: 0.7
    :END:
<example block>
*** Simple block  :BMCOL:B_block:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_col: 0.3
    :BEAMER_env: block
    :END:
it's that easy!

1.2.2 Simple block    BMCOL B_block

it's that easy!

1.3 Two columns - in commands

1.3.1 Commands    BMCOL B_block

** Two columns - in commands
*** Commands
C-c C-b | 0.7
C-c C-b b
C-n
<eTAB (write example) C-n C-n
*** Result
C-c C-b | 0.3
C-c C-b b
even easier - and faster!

1.3.2 Result    BMCOL B_block

even easier - and faster!

2 Recipes

2.1 Four blocks - code

*** Column 1 :B_ignoreheading:BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
    :BEAMER_col: 0.5
    :END:

*** One
*** Three                                                           

*** Column 2 :BMCOL:B_ignoreheading:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_col: 0.5
    :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
    :END:

*** Two
*** Four

2.2 Four blocks - result

2.2.1 Column 1    B_ignoreheading BMCOL

2.2.2 One

2.2.3 Three

2.2.4 Column 2    BMCOL B_ignoreheading

2.2.5 Two

2.2.6 Four

2.3 Four nice blocks - commands

*** 
C-c C-b | 0.5 # column
C-c C-b i # ignore heading
*** One 
C-c C-b b # block
*** Three 
C-c C-b b
*** 
C-c C-b | 0.5
C-c C-b i
*** Two 
C-c C-b b
*** Four 
C-c C-b b

2.4 Four nice blocks - result

2.4.1    BMCOL B_ignoreheading

2.4.2 One    B_block

2.4.3 Three    B_block

2.4.4    BMCOL B_ignoreheading

2.4.5 Two    B_block

2.4.6 Four    B_block

2.5 Top-aligned blocks

2.5.1 Code    B_block BMCOL

*** Code                                                      :B_block:BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: block
    :BEAMER_col: 0.5
    :BEAMER_envargs: C[t]
    :END:

*** Result                                                    :B_block:BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: block
    :BEAMER_col: 0.5
    :END:
pretty nice!

2.5.2 Result    B_block BMCOL

pretty nice!

2.6 Two columns with text underneath - code

2.6.1    B_columns

  • Code    BMCOL

    \tiny 

    ***  :B_columns:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: columns
    :END:

**** Code :BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_col: 0.6
    :END:

**** Result :BMCOL:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_col: 0.4
    :END:

*** Underneath :B_ignoreheading:
    :PROPERTIES:
    :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
    :END:
Much text underneath! Very Much.
Maybe too much. The whole width!

    \normalsize


  • Result    BMCOL

2.6.2 Underneath    B_ignoreheading

Much text underneath! Very Much. Maybe too much. The whole width!

2.7 Nice quotes

2.7.1 Code    B_block BMCOL

#+begin_quote
Emacs org-mode is a 
great presentation tool - 
Fast to beautiful slides.
- Arne Babenhauserheide
#+end_quote

2.7.2 Result    B_block BMCOL

Emacs org-mode is a great presentation tool - Fast to beautiful slides.

  • Arne Babenhauserheide

2.8 Math snippet

2.8.1 Code    BMCOL B_block

2.8.2 Inline    B_block

\( 1 + 2 = 3 \) is clear

2.8.3 As equation    B_block

\[ 1 + 2 \cdot 3 = 7 \]

2.8.4 Result    BMCOL B_block

2.8.5 Inline    B_block

\( 1 + 2 = 3 \) is clear

2.8.6 As equation    B_block

\[ 1 + 2 \cdot 3 = 7 \]

2.9 \( \LaTeX \)

2.9.1 Code    BMCOL B_block

\( \LaTeX \) gives a space 
after math mode.

\LaTeX{} does it, too.

\LaTeX does not.

At the end of a sentence 
both work.
Try \LaTeX. Or try \LaTeX{}.

Only \( \LaTeX \) and \( \LaTeX{} \) 
also work with HTML export.

2.9.2 Result    BMCOL B_block

\( \LaTeX \) gives a space after math mode.

\LaTeX{} does it, too.

\LaTeX does not.

At the end of a sentence both work. Try \LaTeX. Or try \LaTeX{}.

Only \( \LaTeX \) and \( \LaTeX{} \) also work with HTML export.

2.10 Images with caption and label

2.10.1    B_columns

  • Code    B_block BMCOL
    #+caption: GNU Emacs icon
#+label: fig:emacs-icon
[[/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/emacs.png]]

This is image (\ref{fig:emacs-icon})

  • Result    B_block BMCOL

    file:///usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/emacs.png

    GNU Emacs icon

    This is image (emacs-icon)


2.10.2    B_ignoreheading

Autoscaled to the block width!

2.11 Examples

2.11.1 Code    BMCOL B_block

: #+bla: foo
: * Example Header

Gives an example, which does not interfere with regular org-mode parsing. 

#+begin_example
content
#+end_example

Gives a simpler multiline example which can interfere.

2.11.2 Result    BMCOL B_block

#+bla: foo
* Example Header

Gives an example, which does not interfere with regular org-mode parsing. 

content

Gives a simpler multiline example which can interfere.

3 Basic Configuration

3.1 Header

<Title>

#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger]
#+AUTHOR: <empty for none, if missing: inferred>
#+DATE: <empty for none, if missing: today>
#+BEAMER_FRAME_LEVEL: 2
#+TITLE: <causes <Title> to be regular content!>

3.2 .emacs config

Put these lines into your .emacs or in a file your .emacs pulls in - i.e. via (require 'mysettings) if the other file is named mysettings.el and ends in (provide 'mysettings). 

(org-babel-do-load-languages ; babel, for executing 
 'org-babel-load-languages   ; code in org-mode.
 '((sh . t)
   (emacs-lisp . t)))

(require 'org-latex) ; latex export 
(add-to-list         ; with highlighting
  'org-export-latex-packages-alist '("" "minted"))
(add-to-list 
  'org-export-latex-packages-alist '("" "color"))
(setq org-export-latex-listings 'minted)

3.3 .emacs variables

You can easily set these via M-x customize-variable. 

(custom-set-variables ; in ~/.emacs, only one instance 
 '(org-export-latex-classes (quote ; in the init file!
    (("beamer" "\\documentclass{beamer}" 
        org-beamer-sectioning))))
 '(org-latex-to-pdf-process (quote 
    ((concat "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode" 
             "-shell-escape -output-directory %o %f") 
     "bibtex $(basename %b)" 
     (concat "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode" 
             "-shell-escape -output-directory %o %f")
     (concat "pdflatex -interaction nonstopmode" 
             "-shell-escape -output-directory %o %f")))))

(concat "…" "…") is used here to get nice, short lines. Use the concatenated string instead ("pdflatex…%f").

3.4 Required programs

3.4.1 Emacs - (gnu.org/software/emacs [6])

To get org-mode and edit .org files effortlessly. 

emerge emacs

3.4.2 Beamer \( \LaTeX \) - (bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer [7])

To create the presentation. 

emerge dev-tex/latex-beamer app-text/texlive

3.4.3 Pygments - (pygments.org [8])

To color the source code (with minted). 

emerge dev-python/pygments

4 Thanks and license

4.1 Thanks

Thanks go to the writers of emacs and org-mode, and for this guide in particular to the authors of the org-beamer tutorial on worg [9].

Thank you for your great work!

This presentation is licensed under the GPL [10] (v3 or later) with the additional permission to distribute it without the sources and the copy of the GPL if you give a link to those.1

Footnotes:

1 : \tiny As additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7, you may distribute these works without the copy of the GNU GPL normally required by section 4, provided you include a license notice and a URL through which recipients can access the Corresponding Source and the copy of the GNU GPL.\normalsize

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Links:
[1] http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/ox-beamer.html
[2] http://www.xn--drachentrnen-ocb.de/files/2012-08-08-Mi-recipes-for-beamer-latex-presentation-using-emacs-org-mode_1.pdf
[3] http://www.xn--drachentrnen-ocb.de/files/2012-08-08-Mi-recipes-for-beamer-latex-presentation-using-emacs-org-mode_1.org
[4] http://orgmode.org/worg/
[5] http://emacswiki.org
[6] http://gnu.org/software/emacs
[7] https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer
[8] http://pygments.org
[9] http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-beamer/tutorial.html
[10] http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
[11] http://www.xn--drachentrnen-ocb.de/files/emacs-org-beamer-recipes-thumnail.png
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