Page Layout ⇒ Minipage environment won't stack horizontally

[engelsma]

I'm writing a presentation using the prosper class, and I want to create a simple double-column slide with a picture on the left, and a bulleted list on the right. I am using the minipage environment, as such:

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\begin{slide}{Interfacial wave behavior}
  \fbox{
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
      \includegraphics[scale=0.25]{pics/stoneley-movement01.eps}
  \end{minipage}
  }

  \fbox{
  \begin{minipage}[t]{0.4\textwidth}
  \begin{itemize}
      \item Emitted source
      \item $P$-wave
      \item $S$-wave
      \item Stoneley wave 
  \end{itemize}
  \end{minipage}
}
\end{slide}

...

Not sure if this matters, but I'm compiling the slides using:

$ latex presentation.tex
$ dvips -Ppdf -G0 presentation.dvi -o presentation.ps
$ ps2pdf -dPDFsettings=/prepress presentation.ps presentation.pdf

When I render the slide, it is shown as two boxes stacked neatly on top of one another, when I thought that the minipage environment was supposed to place them side-by-side. Is there another tactic to do this?

Thank you in advance!

[localghost]

The prosper class (and the bug-fixing HA-prosper package) is obsolete. In this case the beamer class or is recommendable because it provides typesetting of columns. The very comprehensive manual will tell you more. You could also try the powerdot class for quick results. But as far as I remember it doesn't provide columns.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹