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Hello,
what's the best way to draw a block with some contents, as with the block environment, that does not span over the whole slide's width?
Currently I use a single column with a specified width, but I find it a little long:
\begin{columns}
\column{7em}
\begin{block}{Title}Text
\end{block}
\end ...

Thank you, Stefan, like this the pdf compiles.
However, it's a little complicated to write, not as content-oriented as it should be. (I lost all this morning trying to figure out, what's wrong :x )
Maybe, one of hyperref, beamer or at least lyx, should handle this automatically (?)
For the moment, I ...

In a beamer document (using beamer-3.07), I get an "Undefined control sequence" error on a line like:

\section{Motivation \foreignlanguage{italian}{Motivazione}}

while the foreignlanguage statements works correctly elsewhere.
For an example, take the conference-ornate-20min.de template from the ...