Hmmm. On a fluke I found this as well (good to know in general!): <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html">http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html</a><div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://orgmode.org/manual/Beamer-class-export.html"></a>This <i>kind</i> of works, though perhaps I should specify that I was hoping for horizontal alignment, not vertical. When I set c[c] on column 1, for some reason column 2 jumps way down toward the bottom of the page...</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 2:33 PM, John Hendy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jw.hendy@gmail.com">jw.hendy@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Found this: <a href="http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-orgmode-gnu/2009-12/msg00238.html" target="_blank">http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-orgmode-gnu/2009-12/msg00238.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>
Does the referenced BEAMER_envargs option of:</div>
<div><br></div><div>----</div><div><span style="font-family:Verdana, Georgia, serif;font-size:14px">:BEAMER_envargs: [op-for-block] c[opt-for-column-env] C[opt-for- columns-env] </span></div>
<div>----</div><div><br></div><div>actually work? The discussion seems like it might have taken place as Beamer support was being decided and so I&#39;m not sure if it made it or not.</div><div><br></div><div>Can anyone verify this works? Am I doing it wrong?</div>

<div><br></div><div>*** heading</div><div><div>:PROPERTIES:</div><div>:BEAMER_col: 0.45</div><div>:BEAMER_env: ignoreheading</div><div>:BEAMER_envargs: c[opt-for-column-env]</div><div>:END:</div></div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>

<br></div><div><br></div><div>John</div>
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