Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes:
> Mehul Sanghvi <mehul.sang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to center the list items that I have in my presentation.
>> How would I do that ?
>
> Vertically? I think that's what you get by default (at least that's what I
> get).
>
> Horizontally? Each list item centered? I hope not - it's going to look ugly.
> You can do something like this
>
> #+LaTeX_CLASS: beamer
>
> * foo
> #+LaTeX: \begin{center}
> one\\
> two three\\
> four five six
> #+LaTeX: \end{center}
>
> and each line will be centered, but you cannot do this with a list:
> I think the box that the list occupies takes up the whole width of the
> slide, so centering it is a no-op.
>
> Or perhaps you want the whole box indented so that the items are closer
> to the center of the slide (but still left-aligned)? I think you can do
> that by playing with list parameters in LaTeX, but I don't have my
> references handy and don't know how to do it off the top of my head.
If you want the list as a whole centred, the way Nick suggests here,
taking up less of the width, you can put the list inside a column block
with a desired width. There need not be more than one column block in a
given slide!
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