[Tex/LaTex] How to get blocks of same height in beamer columns and minipage framework

beamerblockminipage

I need help on something that will certainly seem very simple, but I cannot figure out:

I use columns and minipage, in beamer, to have one block on the left and one on the right corner of the page. Then I have a 3rd block at their bottom that is as wide as the page.

Thanks to minipage, the first two blocks have same width. However, I don't know how to "lengthen" the shorter one so they have the same length.

I also have a second question which is why is the 3rd block not the same width has the top ones?

Thanks for your help.

MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}%[T]

\column{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{minipage}[c][0.5\textheight][c]{\linewidth} 
\begin{block}{block1}
  text
\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\column{0.5\textwidth}

\begin{minipage}[t][0.5\textheight][c]{\linewidth} 
\begin{block}{block2}
\[
\resizebox{25mm}{!}{$\displaystyle\begin{bmatrix}
f_{1} & f_{2} & f_{3}\\ s_{1} & 0 & 0 \\ 0 & s_{2} & 0 
\end{bmatrix}$}
\]
\end{block}

\end{minipage}
\end{columns}

\begin{block}{block3}

\end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

Best Answer

The width of the 3rd block is correct, your first two trespass into the margin as there is not enough space on a single line. You specify both to have .5\textwidth which does not leave any space for the separation between them. To solve this, reduce their width and use the onlytextwidth option of the column environment.
to make the blocks equally height, place your minipages inside them.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Warsaw}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}[onlytextwidth]
    \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth}
        \begin{block}{block1}
          \begin{minipage}[c][0.16\textheight][c]{\linewidth} 
            text
          \end{minipage}
        \end{block}
    \end{column}
    \begin{column}{0.45\textwidth}
        \begin{block}{block2}
            \[
                \begin{bmatrix}
                    f_{1} & f_{2} & f_{3}\\
                    s_{1} & 0 & 0 \\ 
                    0 & s_{2} & 0 
                \end{bmatrix}
            \]
        \end{block}
    \end{column}    
\end{columns}

\begin{block}{block3}

\end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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Here's a suggestion using minipages instead of the column environment. The good thing with minipages is that you can specify the height. The vertical alignment is done with \hfill.

The command is \begin{minipage}[alignment][HEIGHT][alignment]{WIDTH}...\end{minipage}

The text and figures seem to align fine now but please let me know if it doesn't work as you want it to.

I also created a new environment (called MRuleBlock) that might simplify your code. The code generates two slides, one without the new environment and one with.

Code:

\documentclass[]{beamer}
% Set up as beamerposter
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=A2,scale=1.47,debug]{beamerposter}
\usetheme{Modified}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[greek,english]{babel}
\usepackage{textgreek}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\graphicspath{{./figures/}}
\usepackage[super]{nth}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsthm, amssymb, latexsym}
%\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage{lipsum}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% Document information
\title{Title}
\author[]{Authors}
\institute[]{
Institute1\\
Institute2
}

\newlength{\blockheight}
\setlength{\blockheight}{.5\textheight}
\newlength{\blockwidth}
\setlength{\blockwidth}{.31\textwidth}

\newenvironment{MRuleBlock}[3]{%
\begin{minipage}[t][#2][t]{#3}%
\begin{block}{#1}%
}{%
\end{block}%
\end{minipage}%
}


% Make the figure caption labels bold
%\setbeamerfont{caption}{series=\bfseries}
% Beamer disables figure numbering by default (it assumes figure numbers on 
% slides would not make sense). This command restores autonubering
\setbeamertemplate{caption}[numbered]
\setbeamerfont{caption name}{series=\bfseries}
\setbeamertemplate{caption label separator}[period]

\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t][\blockheight][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}
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\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t][\blockheight][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}
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\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t][\blockheight][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}

\end{block}
\end{minipage}

\begin{minipage}[t][][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}
Different height, and vertical padding between is reduced?!
\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t][][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}
\begin{figure}[H]
\caption{The block containing a figure is the correct height!}
\end{figure}
\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t][][t]{\blockwidth}
\begin{block}{Section}
\lipsum[1]
\end{block}
\end{minipage}

\newpage
\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{\blockheight}{\blockwidth}
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\end{MRuleBlock}
\hfill
\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{\blockheight}{\blockwidth}
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\end{MRuleBlock}
\hfill
\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{\blockheight}{\blockwidth}

\end{MRuleBlock}

\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{}{\blockwidth}
Different height, and vertical padding between is reduced?!
\end{MRuleBlock}
\hfill
\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{}{\blockwidth}
\begin{figure}[H]
\caption{The block containing a figure is the correct height!}
\end{figure}
\end{MRuleBlock}
\hfill
\begin{MRuleBlock}{Section}{}{\blockwidth}
\lipsum[1]
\end{MRuleBlock}
\end{document}

Which gives:

You can obviously play around with the parameters \blockheight and \blockwidth to fine tune the blocks.

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