On Sunday 11 April 2010 20:00:38 Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steve Litt <sl...@...> writes:
> > When I do this:
> >
> > \setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=blue,bg=red}
> > \setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{I love that dirty water}
> >
> > Indeed the header says "I love that dirty water" in blue type, but the
> > background remains white. How do I turn the header's background red?
>
> \setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=blue,bg=red}
> \setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{%
> \begin{beamercolorbox}{headline}%
> I love that dirty water%
> \end{beamercolorbox}%
> }
Confirmed! Thanks Paul!
Your code was almost exactly what I wanted, but it left white spaces at the
slide's margins. So, armed with the fact that beamercolorbox was the operant
fact, I found this:
\setbeamercolor{headline}{fg=blue,bg=red}
\setbeamertemplate{headline}[text line]{%
\begin{beamercolorbox}[wd=\paperwidth,ht=.3cm, dp=.2cm,
leftskip=.5cm,rightskip=.3cm,vskip=0.2cm]{headline}%
I love that dirty water%
\end{beamercolorbox}%
}
So what I did was add wd=\paperwidth to close the white spaces, ht=.3cm and
dp=.2cm to define the header height and how far down the writing starts, and
leftskip and rightskip so the writing doesn't start right at the edge of the
paper. This gave me exactly what I wanted.
I searched for hours to try to find this, and you gave it to me in 1 minute.
Thanks so much!!!
SteveT
Steve Litt
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