On Wednesday 07 April 2010 14:29:26 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Steve Litt wrote: > > I guess I'll be making a layout file called "mybeamer". > > Steve, > > You seem to enjoy re-inventing the wheel so you'll have fun with this. > If you read the document you'll find a wide range of layouts and colors. > Within those, you can tweak to your heart's content. But, that's not as > much fun as starting from scratch. > > > The funniest thing was placing a graphic on a page. When I make > > Powerpoint presentations I like to put the graphic at the side of the > > bullet points, somewhere where the bullet points are short. I couldn't > > figure a way to do that in Beamer (makes sense, what I describe is > > fingerpainting), so instead I put the graphic at the bottom and then > > preceded it with the following ERT: > > Well, I do this on a regular basis. It's not difficult at all. RTFM. > > > In the long run I don't know if I'll be doing these slides in Beamer, > > Nah! Go back to PowerPoint. Easier. > Rich,
An easy way of achieving what Steve wants in powerdot is to put two boxes side by side on the slide (easily done simply by setting their widths to a total of about 99% of text width), and putting the text in one and the figure in the other. I imagine this would work in beamer too. Les -- ...... Les Denham
