nicely align blocks vertically

[gerhard]

Hi,

If you have several columns and blocks with various sizes,
the blocks will be aligned at the top across columns, but not
at the bottom (ragged look).
To vary the space between block in a column, so that they are
automatically aligned at top and bottom across columns,
you put the blocks of every column into a minipage and use
\vfill between the blocks, i.e.:

\begin{column}[]{.3\linewidth}
\begin{minipage}[t][\textheight]{\linewidth}
\begin{block}{Blocktitle1}
...
\end{block}
\vfill
\begin{block}{Blocktitle2}
...
\end{block}
\end{minipage}
\end{column}

An alternative solution would be to vary the spaces between all
lines of a block and for all blocks in that column (up to a defined
rubber length, of course, because this will look odd when there is
not very much content in one column), so that blocks in a column
have the same vertical distances to the other blocks, are vertically
aligned across columns, and the content fills the columns in a
more balanced way.

If someone has ideas on how to possibly do that, this would be
great to know (to work on together?).

Bye,
Gerhard

[Philippe Dreuw]

Hi, have a look at the 3x1_withfigures.tex template in the Files section.

Best,
Philippe

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[gerhard]

Right, that is basically the same I did.
Was there also a message referring to that example?
At least I did not find it when i did my first poster
where I finally wanted to align the blocks.

Only now I had some time left
and decided I like to give something back to the community.

A propos, thank you for beamerposter,

G

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