[Tex/LaTex] How to left-and-right justify text in columns in Beamer

beamercolumnshorizontal alignment

I have a slide like the following:

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{two columns}
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}{.5\textwidth}
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem.
\end{column}
\hfill
\begin{column}{.5\textwidth}
Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium.
\end{column}%
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

How can I get the text in each of the columns to be justified?

Best Answer

You can use \justifying from ragged2e package.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\begin{document}
  \begin{frame}
\frametitle{two columns}
\begin{columns}
\begin{column}[t]{.5\textwidth}
  \justifying
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean commodo ligula eget dolor. Aenean massa. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Donec quam felis, ultricies nec, pellentesque eu, pretium quis, sem.
\end{column}
\hfill
\begin{column}[t]{.5\textwidth}
  \justifying
Nulla consequat massa quis enim. Donec pede justo, fringilla vel, aliquet nec, vulputate eget, arcu. In enim justo, rhoncus ut, imperdiet a, venenatis vitae, justo. Nullam dictum felis eu pede mollis pretium.
\end{column}%
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

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I have also added the [t] option to \begin{column} so that the columns are aligned at top.

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Looking at CTAN by Topic I've found reference to

parallel: Provides a parallel environment which allows two potentially different texts to be typeset in two columns, while maintaining alignment. The two columns may be on the same page, or on facing pages.

parcolumns: Provides an environment for typesetting text in two or more parallel columns (as for example, in a multiply translated text)

paracol: The package provides yet another multi-column typesetting mechanism by which you produce multi-column (e.g., bilingual) document switching and synchronizing each corresponding part in “parallel”.

parrun: For typesetting translated text and the original source, parallel on the same page, one above the other.

I've never used them but I hope some of them will suit your needs.

[Tex/LaTex] text justify in beamer

You can use \justifying from the ragged2e package; you can patch the \frame command to use \justyfing, but you will also have to invoke \justifying for some other environments which internally use \raggedleft (for example, the beamer blocks, and the list-like environments enumerate, itemize, etc.). A little example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{ragged2e}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\apptocmd{\frame}{}{\justifying}{} % Allow optional arguments after frame.

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\lipsum[2]
\end{frame}

\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{text}
\justifying
\lipsum[2]
\end{block}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

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