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Side-by-side content in beamer presentations

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There are two ways (and possibly more) to place content side-by-side in a beamer presentation, the columns and the minipage environments. The first is a beamer-specific environment and is therefore only available in a beamer presentation. Whereas the latter has other applications and is available in all document-classes.   General considerations In any LaTeX document, … [Read more…]

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Frankly speaking, I don’t know what this might be useful for. \the in front of any length command displays its value (in pt): displays their actual length in points. E.g. \textwidth in my case is translated to: . A list of length “macros” can be found on wikibooks. Use the layouts package to convert pt … [Read more…]