John Goerzen has another post in his coming back to Emacs series. This time he looks at writing documents and preparing presentations with Emacs and Org mode. It’s an elementary discussion but there’s plenty that will be useful to newcomers to Org.
He starts with an explanation of the Org exporting system and how easy it is to export an Org document in many different formats. In addition to the “standard” export formats provided out-of-the-box by Org, there are several 3rd party packages that allow exporting to additional formats.
One of those export options is to Beamer. Although it’s just another export choice, it feels like a separate functionality. You can write your presentation in an easy and natural way with Org and then export it to a set of slides suitable for a presentation. Although he doesn’t mention it, there is also the org-reveal package for presentations. If you have presentations to give and want slides to go with them, either Beamer or org-reveal gives you an easy way to generate them from the comfort of Emacs and Org.
If you’re new to Emacs, Goerzen’s series on his return to Emacs is worth reading. It’s a good overview of Org mode and Emacs and what they can do for you.