beamerminipagespacing
I do not understand why my attempts to introduce horizontal spacing in beamer (with hspace or typographical spacing) fail when within a minipage:
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\frame{
text \\
\hspace{1cm} text \\
\begin{minipage}{5cm}
text \\
\hspace{1cm} \quad text
\end{minipage}
}
\end{document}
Why? How can I introduce this spacing? Thanks in advance.
Footnotes within minipage environments are printed with small letters. The definition in latex.ltx is
\def\thempfootnote{{\itshape\@alph\c@mpfootnote}}
You could redefine it. A quick way would be:
\let\thempfootnote\thefootnote
Afterwards the footnote symbols within a minipage will be an arabic number as well.
There are two things going on in this situation. For those who know about LaTeX's list parameters, there is a \topsep being added before the itemize list. The other is
that this item is starting in vertical mode, so a \partopsep is also being added.
We thus need to do two things in this situation: (1) set \topsep to zero for the list, via a redefinition \@listi, and (2) clear \partopsep.
The best way to do this is to add this to block begin template. Here is an example, based on the essentials of your code.
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usetheme{default}
\usecolortheme{crane}
\setbeamertemplate{itemize items}[square]
\setbeamercolor{item}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{frametitle}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{block title}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{title}{fg=black}
\setbeamercolor{block body}{bg=white}
\makeatletter
\addtobeamertemplate{block begin}{
\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
\topsep 0pt
\parsep 0pt
\itemsep 3pt plus 2pt minus 3pt}
\partopsep 0pt
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{text vs. item blocks}
\begin{columns}[t]
\begin{column}{0.42\textwidth}
\begin{block}{text block}
block block block block block\vadjust{\hrule}
block block block block block
block block block block block
block block block block block
\end{block}
\end{column}
\begin{column}{0.48\textwidth}
\begin{block}{item block}
\begin{itemize}
\item item\vadjust{\hrule}
\item item
\item item
\end{itemize}
\end{block}
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
I have placed the blocks side-by-side and added the \vadjust{\hrule} for illustration purposes. The values for \@listi are based on beamers defaults which are
\def\@listi{\leftmargin\leftmargini
\topsep 3\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus2.5\p@
\parsep 0\p@
\itemsep3\p@ \@plus2\p@ \@minus3\p@}
\partopsep has default value
2.0pt plus 1.0pt minus 1.0pt
If you want the individual lines to match up, then you should also put \itemsep equal to 0pt in the above code.
Beaware that if the titles of the two blocks have different heights/depths then theh body will move accordingly and you will loose your alignment again. You can cover yourself a little by adding an appropriate strut to your block titles.
Note that the above code also kills \topsep for subsquent uses of itemize within the same block. If this is a problem, you might try to just adjust \partopsep to cancel out \topsep and ensure that your subsequent lists in the block do not start in vertical mode.
Best Answer
The command
\hspace{}won't be effective at the start of a line inside theminipage. You should use\hspace*{1cm}or\null\hspace{1cm}. As David notes the\nullversion should not be used at the start of the line at paragraph begining.A MWE: