[OS X TeX] Working with beamer and then BOOM

[Themis Matsoukas]

The font warning is not unusual. You must have done something to the  
blocks that confused latex. It looks like the problem is on p 5. I  
suggest you try to isolate the problematic frame and build it from  
scratch.

A few suggestions:

1. Create templates that you can reuse.  I have a bunch of them that  
I copy/paste (I save them below the \end{document} line). This makes  
it easier than having to build the frame from scratch each time (not  
to mention that I don't have to memorize all these commands). An  
example of a frame with two columns and a block in the right column  
is shown here:

%: frame with two columns & one block
\begin{frame}
   \frametitle{Frame with Two Columns and one Block}
   \begin{columns}
     \column{4cm}%  declare width of first column
     some material in this column (e.g. a figure, or itemized list)
     \column{6cm}%  declare width of second column
       \begin{block}{This is a block}  %start block
         \begin{itemize}
         \item
         \item
         \item
         \end{itemize}
       \end{block}
   \end{columns}
\end{frame}

2. Increase complexity in small steps

3. Keep it as simple as possible (the audience will thank you and you  
will spend less time cursing the computer).

4. If you still have problems, post a minimal example.

I hope this helps

Themis

On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:19 AM, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:

> I have been working on a presentation using beamer for several hours
> now.  Recently I started adding blocks to my frames and then during
> typesetting I am getting now:
>
>
> LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmss/m/n' in size <4> not  
> available
> (Font)              size <5> substituted on input line 23.
>
> [1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/ 
> pdftex.map}]
> (./EQD9_presentation.toc) [2]
> Overfull \vbox (3.89851pt too high) detected at line 52
> [3] [4]
> ! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [input stack size=5000].
> \end #1->\csname end#1
>                      \endcsname \@checkend {#1}\expandafter  
> \endgroup \if at e...
> l.83 \end{frame}
>
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
> Transcript written on EQD9_presentation.log.
>
>
>
> Any suggestions?   Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Enrico Indiogine
>
> Mathematics Education
> Texas A&M University
> hindiogine at gmail.com
>
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