General ⇒ enlarge width of items with shrink in beamer class

[carol]

Hi,
I found shrink option useful for some frames on which all information on a topic could be fit. However, I noticed that when using itemize environment, even at first level, the itemized sentence could be shrunk in width which spands on more than one line. Is there any way to enlarge this width with shrink option? For ex, on the attached file, I wish that "read a book, confuse a cat, watch TV, cook, sleep and many other things to do . . ." hold on a line or at least more words could be on the same line. I think if there are more sections and subsection which reduce frame size, would influence on this width limited by shrink. For ex, in the attached file, the header of the frame is not large but if it were, the width of the items would have been less.

Independent questions: how to insert a subtitle in the frame footline if the title is long to be fitted? How to remove title and author from the footline?

Cheers,

[gmedina]

Hi,

you can use shrink=<minimum shrink percentage>. This is well documented in the beamer user guide (pages 57 and 58). Also take this into account:

Using this option [...shrink...] is very evil. It will result in changes of the font size from slide to slide, which is a typographic nightmare. Its usage can always be avoided by restructuring and simplifying frames, which will result in a better presentation.

[carol]

thanks. How about the questions on footer?

Carol

[gmedina]

thanks. How about the questions on footer?

You are welcome. I overlooked those questions.

What beamer theme are you using? Do you want to suppress tha author's name and the title in all the frames or just in a particular one?

[carol]

I use \usepackage{beamerthemesplit}. In one presentation, I might remove the author and title in the footer of all frames and in another presentation, I would like to have the author and subtitle (instead of title) in the footer of all slides. Note that in the latter case, the subtitle won't appear on the first frame containing the title, author, etc.

Moreover, I have noticed the limited width of some items when using allowframebreaks. Is there any way to enlarge the width when this option is used?

Cheers,

[gmedina]

Hi,

for boyh variations, one option could be to use the optional arguments of the corresponding commands:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\title[Short Title]{Long Title for the Presenation}
\author[Short A Name]{Long Author's Name}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
  Test frame
\end{frame}

\end{document}

and

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\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\title[]{Long Title for the Presentation}
\author[]{Long Author's Name}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
  \titlepage
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
  Test frame
\end{frame}

\end{document}