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 using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached
file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in
your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should
enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in "article (beamer)"
the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting
existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method
in the link that Jürgen provided.
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.
Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout
file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your
~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? That's
the only explanation I can come up with. FWIW, with my modified layout
file, if I switch from "presentation (beamer)" (where page size and
margins are locked) to "article (beamer)", page size and margins are
unlocked and I can change them. If I then switch back to "presentation
(beamer)", the page size and margin revert to Beamer defaults and are
locked, as you would wish. So I don't know why they did not revert for
you, but then again I don't know why you were able to change them in the
first place.
I've tested this on Win XP with LyX 1.6.3 but not yet on Ubuntu. Since
it's a layout file issue, I doubt that it will behave differently on
Ubuntu, but then it's one of those "should not be possible" things in
the first place.
