General ⇒ Columns on a beamer slide

[gozzi84]

I'm using LateX beamer for the slides of my dissertation.

I want two colums in one of my slides, in which in one I have a picture and in the other a block with a formula...

\begin{multicols}{2}{

\[ \mathnormal{
caplet(t)=\beta(t)\mathbb{E}_{t}^{\mathbb{Q}}\biggl[\frac{\tau(L(T,T+\tau)-K)^{+}}{\beta(T+\tau)}\biggl] }
\]
where $\mathnormal{L(T,T+\tau)}$ are MC simulated.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=0.40\textwidth]{C:/Users/Pictures/Test2.png}
\label{fig:Test2}
\end{figure}

}

\end{multicols}

If I write before my formula

\begin{block}{}

formula

\end{block}

the result is a block with width the entire slide and not only a half slide as I wanted....

Any ideas?


Thanks a lot!

[gmedina]

Hi,

according to your code, you are using the multicol package with beamer. That's not necessary. To split a frame into columns, use the columns environment provided by beamer. Please refer to the beamer user guide (12.7 Splitting a Frame into Multiple Columns pp. 118 ff.)

[localghost]

The figure environment is not necessary here because the image is not to float. If you need a caption with a label, use the caption package which provides the \captionof command.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[gmedina]

The figure environment is not necessary here because the image is not to float. If you need a caption with a label, use the caption package which provides the \captionof command.

Yes, but, in presentation mode, beamer takes care of placing the figure where the environment starts and ignores any placement specification. The standard figure and table environments can be useful if the article mode is going to be used as well.

[gozzi84]

Given we want two columns in a slides where:

- in the first I need a formula in a block

-in the second a table

For the table I had o problmes, but if I use the block environment the result is a block with width the entire slide and not only the colums as I wanted... any indeas?


Thanks

[gmedina]

Hi gozzi84,

the following code does what you expect with no problems (at least on my system). I attach the resulting pdf.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \begin{columns}
    \begin{column}{.5\linewidth}
      \begin{block}{Some equation}
         \begin{align*}
           a &= b\\
             &= d\\
             &= f
         \end{align*}
      \end{block}
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{.5\linewidth}
      \begin{tabular}{cc}\hline
        some text & some text \\\hline
      \end{tabular}
    \end{column}
  \end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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