I am trying to create a scientific poster (in a beamer environment) with three columns. It works very well, my only problem is that the separation between the columns is too large and I cannot find a way to overwrite the default value assigned by beamer.
I know, in a tabular environment, I could have used \renewcommand\tabcolsep{6pt}
Is there anything similar for a column
environment?
I use \begin{columns} \column{.3\textwidth}
for my columns. And I use the beamerposter
package, but from my understanding it is embedded in a beamer
document class, so I assume that beamer's commands would work as well.
Thank you.
Here is a working example. You can see that the space between two columns is about 2 cm, I would like to be able to modify this space.
\documentclass{beamer}
\mode<presentation>
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[orientation=landscape,size=a0,scale=1.4,debug]{beamerposter}
% Display a grid to help align images
\beamertemplategridbackground[1cm]
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}[t]{}
\vspace{-40pt}
\begin{columns}[t]
\begin{column}[t]{0.305\linewidth}
\lipsum
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{0.305\linewidth}
\lipsum
\end{column}
\begin{column}[t]{0.305\linewidth}
\lipsum
\end{column}
\end{columns}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Best Answer
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:To control the margins you can use
\setbeamersize
,a and theonlytextwidth
option for thecolumns
environment: