[Tex/LaTex] How to draw a line between columns in beamerposter, reaching from header to bottom

beamerpostermulticolrules

I am trying to make a poster using the beamerposter package and have a line below a header block (containing title, authors etc.). Now I want to draw a vertical line in the middle of the poster (separating the columns), that starts at the header line and ends at the lower end of the poster.

I already found this very similar question, but the line there is only as short as possible. Here is a MWE with the short vertical line:

\documentclass[final,hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}                   

\setlength{\columnseprule}{2mm}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth]{headline}
    \centering\huge{Headline and stuff}
    \rule{\paperwidth}{2mm}
  \end{beamercolorbox}

  \begin{multicols}{2}
    \huge some text\\
    some more text
  \end{multicols}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

How can I draw a longer vertical line?

Best Answer

I don't know if this really answers your question; printing half of the horizontal rule, a very long vertical one (but "smashed", so its length is not "seen" by TeX) and the other half rule seems to work.

I use some low level commands, so to avoid some glitches with \rule.

\documentclass[final,hyperref={pdfpagelabels=false}]{beamer}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}                   
\usepackage{lipsum}
%\setlength{\columnseprule}{2mm}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth]{headline}
    \centering\huge Headline and stuff\\
    \rule{.5\paperwidth}{2mm}\kern-1mm
    \smash{\vrule height 0pt depth \paperheight width 2mm}\kern-1mm
    \rule{.5\paperwidth}{2mm}%
  \end{beamercolorbox}

  \begin{multicols}{2}
    \huge \lipsum[1-3]
  \end{multicols}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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[Tex/LaTex] How to show the vertical line between two columns

Use \setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}.

EDIT: Obviously, you may freely choose the thickness of the column-separating line. I suggested 0.4pt because standard LaTeX uses this value for rules above footnotes and around fboxes.

[Tex/LaTex] How to separate columns with a line in beamer(poster)

Could you please provide a minimal working example? The reason is that it works for me:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usetheme{Darmstadt}

\newcommand{\sometext}{{\footnotesize Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore }}

\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
    \frametitle{3 columns}
        \begin{multicols}{3}
         \sometext\sometext\sometext\sometext\sometext\sometext\sometext
        \end{multicols}
    \end{frame}     
\end{document}

creates this:

enter image description here

EDIT: Oh, I totally overlooked the beamerposter. Thats why a MWE would have been nice, no forgetting upon Ctrl + C and inserting in my editor ;)

But anyway, it still works for me:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage[orientation=portrait,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetheme{Darmstadt}

\newcommand{\sometext}
{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisici elit, sed eiusmod tempor incidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquid ex ea commodi consequat. Quis aute iure reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint obcaecat cupiditat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat.

Ut wisi enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerci tation ullamcorper suscipit lobortis nisl ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis autem vel eum iriure dolor in hendrerit in vulputate velit esse molestie consequat, vel illum dolore eu feugiat nulla facilisis at vero eros et accumsan et iusto odio dignissim qui blandit praesent luptatum zzril delenit augue duis dolore te feugait nulla facilisi.
}

\newcommand{\moretext}[1]
{   \foreach \x in {1,2,...,#1}
    {   \sometext
    }
}

\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt}

\begin{document}
    \begin{frame}
    \frametitle{3 columns}
        \begin{multicols}{3}
            \moretext{7}
        \end{multicols}
    \end{frame}     
\end{document}

produces this:

enter image description here

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