This is a follow up on my org beamer post, since I've changed the way I manage to export three variants of the same document. Recall what I want to do is to be able to export: pres: the slides with speaker notes (obviously), handout: a handout version (no animations, several slides per page), slides: the slides without speaker notes (so that students might be able to re-see the slides exactly as they were shown during the lecture, including animations).

In the beginning was FoilTeX… I started using LaTeX around 1995. For making slides1 I initially used FoilTeX, briefly switched to prosper around 2004 (I'm pretty sure I also tried powerdot at some point) before going back to FoilTeX, but with a custom myfoils.sty style file supposed to allow a lighter and more convenient markup: a slide environment, abbreviations for very common markup: \bi \ei \i for itemizes, \be \ee for enumerate, \bmp \emp for a minipage, \img for including a picture.