Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to "default" when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Stra

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your res

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are usi

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took th

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact or in parallel development). I don't think it's really

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-13 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Graham M Smith wrote: > After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document > Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin > sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just > the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Graham M Smith
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the bran

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: > Paul >> > > I could of course add a line for the margins in the preamble that I comment > out and in depending on the output, but I was hoping for something a bit > more automated than that. > I thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact or in parallel development). I don't think it's really intended to reproduce

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: Paul Any particular reason you are switching to the article class for handouts, as opposed to using the handout option in the class options field? Mmmm, I'm not switching to the article class, I'm switching to the "article (Beamer)" class. I realise now that I described

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Graham M Smith
Paul Any particular reason you are switching to the article class for handouts, as opposed to using the handout option in the class options field? Mmmm, I'm not switching to the article class, I'm switching to the "article (Beamer)" class. I realise now that I described this as "beamer articl

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-12 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Graham M Smith wrote: rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doe

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean very much to

Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread rgheck
On 08/11/2009 03:27 PM, Graham M Smith wrote: I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile err

changing margins in article class when using Beamer

2009-08-11 Thread Graham M Smith
I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile error). I assume I can put something in the pream