Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk> writes: > On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 15:38, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > > [...] > >> The above things are currently (almost, for some) impossible. Changing >> where the #+BEAMER_HEADER placeholder gets inserted makes them possible >> and easy. > > but unfortunately would make other things more difficult. For instance, > I often redefine the date command (and sometimes title and author) to do > something different. If the header entries were placed after the use of > theses, things would break for me. >
Couldn't you use #+LATEX_HEADER for that sort of thing, then? > I think the creation of an ...EXTRA directive would be better but I've > argued for this before and have lost that argument. I agree here. Why not make that more transparent and have #+LATEX_HEADER and #+LATEX_HEADER_END as well as #+BEAMER_HEADER and #+BEAMER_HEADER_END ? > > You can achieve what you want by redefining \title, I would > suggest. Not pretty but it works. (Isn't that true for your use case of redefining date, too?) And last but not least: I think the particular use case of adding a short title to a beamer presentation is common enough to deserve proper org mode support. Regards, Andreas