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

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\setlength{\columnseprule}{0.4pt} with the multicol package does not work. The beamer guide does not discuss this case for their columns environment…

To be clear this is what I want

###### | ###### | ######
###### | ###### | ######
###### | ###### | ######
###### | ###### | ######
###### | ###### | ######
###### | ###### | ######

Best Answer

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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[Tex/LaTex] Separation between columns in beamer

The only way to decrease the intercolumn space is to increase the column width. You can do this manually, or you can define auxiliary lengths to do the calculations for you; in the following example, you simply set the desired value for \MyColSep and the \MyColWd will give you the column width producing the desired separation:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{calc}

\beamertemplategridbackground[1cm]

\newlength\MyColSep
\setlength\MyColSep{1cm}
\newlength\MyColWd
\setlength\MyColWd{0.3333\textwidth-0.6666666\MyColSep}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{} 

\begin{columns}[t]

\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}

\end{columns}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

To control the margins you can use \setbeamersize,a and the onlytextwidth option for the columns environment:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{calc}

\beamertemplategridbackground[1cm]

\setbeamersize{text margin left=3cm,text margin right=3cm}
\newlength\MyColSep
\setlength\MyColSep{1cm}
\newlength\MyColWd
\setlength\MyColWd{0.3333\textwidth-0.66666\MyColSep}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}[t]{} 

\begin{columns}[onlytextwidth]
\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{\MyColWd}
\lipsum[1-3]
\end{column}
\end{columns}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Spanning multiple beamer columns

As far as I know, the only possibility is to interrupt the columns environment, include the wider material end then start a new columns environment (in fact, that's what the author of the poster you linked to does):

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\textwidth]
\column{.5\linewidth}
Some material for the first column goes here
\column{.5\linewidth}
Some material for the second column goes here
\end{columns}
\vfill
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=1cm]{cat}
\vfill
\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\textwidth]
\column{.5\linewidth}
Some material for the first column goes here
\column{.5\linewidth}
Some material for the second column goes here
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

And here's the code showing one possible approach to have an image spanning two out of three columns. The idea is to have one outer columns environment of width, for example, \textwidth; inside this environment two columns are created; one of them twice as wide as the other one; inside the wider column, the idea from the previous example is used: an inner columns environment is used to produce two columns of equal width; this inner columns environment is then ended to include the image spanning two columns, and finally another inner columns environment is used to hold the final two columns.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}

\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\textwidth]
  \column{.32\textwidth}
  Some material for the first column goes here. Some material for the first column goes here.   
  Some material for the first column goes here. Some material for the first column goes here.   
  \hfill
  \column{.65\textwidth}
  \vspace*{-\baselineskip}
  \begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\textwidth]
    \column{.48\textwidth}
    Some material for the second column goes here.
    \column{.48\textwidth}
    Some material for the third column goes here.
  \end{columns}
  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=2cm]{cat}
  \begin{columns}[t,totalwidth=\textwidth]
    \column{.48\textwidth}
    Some material for the second column goes here.
    \column{.48\textwidth}
    Some material for the third column goes here.
  \end{columns}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}

\end{document}

enter image description here

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