[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX package stmaryrd doesn’t work together with org-mode beamer template

org-mode

This page gives some templates to let you make beamer presentations in org-mode. But if I use some symbols from the stmaryrd package, they won't get rendered if I export to pdf using org-mode.

The following is the templates from 2.1 (Beamer specific settings) and 2.2 (Outline levels for frames (slides)) of that page at the time of writing, importing the stmaryrd package (#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{stmaryrd}), some sample text and a formula using some stmaryrd symbols (llbracket, \rrbracket). 

#+TITLE:     Writing Beamer presentations in org-mode
#+AUTHOR:    Eric S Fraga
#+EMAIL:     e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk
#+DATE:      2010-03-30 Tue
#+DESCRIPTION: 
#+KEYWORDS: 
#+LANGUAGE:  en

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{stmaryrd}

#+OPTIONS:   H:3 num:t toc:t \n:nil @:t ::t |:t ^:t -:t f:t *:t <:t
#+OPTIONS:   TeX:t LaTeX:t skip:nil d:nil todo:t pri:nil tags:not-in-toc
#+INFOJS_OPT: view:nil toc:nil ltoc:t mouse:underline buttons:0 path:http://orgmode.org/org-info.js
#+EXPORT_SELECT_TAGS: export
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
#+LINK_UP:   
#+LINK_HOME:

#+startup: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
#+LaTeX_CLASS_OPTIONS: [bigger]

* Introduction

Some text here

A formula:

\[ \llbracket 234 \rrbracket \]

Exporting this to a pdf file doesn't work, in the sense that the symbols \llbracket and \rrbracket won't be rendered. The same goes for exporting to a tex file, and then using pdflatex to compile the tex file to pdf; this is one of the error messages I get:

! Undefined control sequence.
.73 \[ \llbracket
               234 \rrbracket \]

But if this line in the org-file is commented out:

#+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer

The symbols are rendered. But then the pdf file doesn't look like a beamer presentation any more (which is not a surprise). Similarly, if I export to tex, and then comment out this line in the tex file:

\mode<{{{beamermode}}}>

The symbols are rendered correctly. I get a lot of errors when compiling the tex file, and the resulting pdf is not that nice, but at least the symbols are rendered.

(Link to tex output from exporting from org-mode)

Does the stmaryrd package work in a non-beamer org file? Yes; the following document can be compiled to pdf correctly:

#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{stmaryrd}

This is rendered: \llbracket

.emacs setup: This is the setup for beamer that I am using in my .emacs file. It was taken from this blog post. The code adds the beamer class to the org-latex-classes variable. 

(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
;; beamer class, for presentations
'("beamer"
   "\\documentclass[11pt]{beamer}\n
    \\mode<{{{beamermode}}}>\n
    \\usetheme{{{{beamertheme}}}}\n
    \\usecolortheme{{{{beamercolortheme}}}}\n
    \\beamertemplateballitem\n
    \\setbeameroption{show notes}
    \\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\n
    \\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}\n
    \\usepackage{hyperref}\n
    \\usepackage{color}
    \\usepackage{listings}
    \\lstset{numbers=none,language=[ISO]C++,tabsize=4,
frame=single,
basicstyle=\\small,
showspaces=false,showstringspaces=false,
showtabs=false,
keywordstyle=\\color{blue}\\bfseries,
commentstyle=\\color{red},
}\n
    \\usepackage{verbatim}\n
    \\institute{{{{beamerinstitute}}}}\n          
      \\subject{{{{beamersubject}}}}\n"

   ("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")

   ("\\begin{frame}[fragile]\\frametitle{%s}"
     "\\end{frame}"
     "\\begin{frame}[fragile]\\frametitle{%s}"
     "\\end{frame}")))

Best Answer

For my .emacs beamer setup code, I replaced the code described in the question with the following code, as found on this webpage at the time of writing.

(require 'ox-latex)
(add-to-list 'org-latex-classes
             '("beamer"
               "\\documentclass\[presentation\]\{beamer\}"
               ("\\section\{%s\}" . "\\section*\{%s\}")
               ("\\subsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsection*\{%s\}")
               ("\\subsubsection\{%s\}" . "\\subsubsection*\{%s\}")))

The aforementioned website seems more up-to-date than the blog post that I was initially using. From what I've found, it seems to be the way to set up Beamer for org-mode, right now.

As for the template for the beamer presentation, I used the interactive function org-beamer-insert-options-template, choosing the "global" option, to generate a template.

Now, using the stmaryrd package in a beamer presentation works fine:

...
#+LATEX_HEADER: \usepackage{stmaryrd}

This is rendered: \llbracket
...
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