Page Layout ⇒ Centered Title Page without Sidebar

[Thomas_l]

Hi all,

I am working on a beamer presentation where i use sidebars. But I don't want to show the sidebar on the title frame and the intermediate table of content frames. So I added the plain option to these frames.

But when I looked at my first frame I noticed that the title wasn't aligned in the middle because the sidebar was suppressed but the place it took was still occupied in the frame.

Is there a way to work around this problem? (I was thinking of changing the outer theme on these slides but can't get that done).

A small example:

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\documentclass{beamer}
\useoutertheme[right]{sidebar}

\author{Thomas Leflere}
\title{A question on sidebars}

\AtBeginSection{
\begin{frame}[plain]
  \tableofcontents[currentsection,currentsubsection]
\end{frame}
}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[plain]
  \maketitle
\end{frame}

\section{section1}

\begin{frame}
  content...
\end{frame}

\section{section2}

\begin{frame}
  content...
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Regards
Thomas

[tom]

Hi Thomas,

the answer to a similar question on TeX.SX might work.

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\begingroup
\makeatletter
\setlength{\hoffset}{.5\beamer@sidebarwidth}
\makeatother
\begin{frame}[plain]
    \titlepage
\end{frame}
\endgroup