Document Classes ⇒ Size of Title Block in Presentation

[manojg]

Hello everyone,

I want to change the title block size and its background color in beamer. Also, I want to change the vertical spacing between the title, author name and date. I searched but no luck. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

[tommytex]

hi manojg,

here is some basic example for you

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\documentclass[12pt]{beamer}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usetheme{Berlin}
\usecolortheme{orchid}%crane

\title{How to use blocks in \LaTeX~Beamer}
\author{Tommytex}
\date{\today}

\defbeamertemplate*{title page}{customized}[1][]
{
	\centering
 	\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=3.8ex]{palette primary}
  		 \centering  \usebeamerfont{title}\inserttitle
    \end{beamercolorbox}
    
  \vspace{1.4cm}
  \bigskip
  \insertauthor\par
  \insertdate\par
  
}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\maketitle
\end{frame}


\begin{frame}{Example}
\begin {block}{Blue block} this is the blue block \end{block}
\begin {alertblock}{Red block} this is the red block \end{alertblock}
\begin {exampleblock}{Green block} this is the green block \end{exampleblock}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

for the block widths see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/ ... -in-beamer.


tommytex

[manojg]

Thank you very much tommytex for you reply.

I encountered another error in latex (not beamer) and have a question about it. I am using mdframed package to make frame around the long text. Before, I got error about pgf, so I installed new version of pgf. Now, I am getting different error like this:

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hs.code.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/mdframed/md-frame-1.mdf))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/lipsum/lipsum.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/geometry/geometry.sty)
LaTeX Warning: Unused global option(s):
    [letter].

(./main.aux) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1ptm.fd)
ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros
! Undefined control sequence.
\mdfsetup ->\kvsetkeys 
                       {mdf}
l.42 	test text
? x
No pages of output.

Any suggestion?
Thanks.

[tommytex]

hi manojg,

maybe you should make this be a new topic...
have you already tried the examples on http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/ ... /mdframed/
(mdframed-example-default.pdf)?

mdframed

tommtex