title: Org-mode beamer, stop a 2-column block and display following text throughout page width
body: <p>I want to compose a beamer frame which consists in two blocks side-by-side, followed by text laid out throughout the page width, that is under the 2 blocks above. Producing the two blocks works fine. However, none of my attempts (e.g putting a '-' to start a new list, putting more than a couple of empty lines after the last block text) could stop the block section.
  Here is a MWE.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>*** Left block                         :B_column:
      :PROPERTIES:
      :BEAMER_env: block
      :BEAMER_col: 0.5
      :END:
  
       My left block of text here
  
  *** Right block                        :B_column:
      :PROPERTIES:
      :BEAMER_env: block
      :BEAMER_col: 0.48
      :END:   
  
      My right block of text here. 
  
  
  - I'd like this piece of text to go below left and right 
    blocks of text throughout the page width but it stays 
    in the right block.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The generated LaTeX source for this will typically be, for right block:</p>
  
  <pre><code>\begin{column}{0.48\textwidth}
  \begin{block}{Right block}
          My right block of text here. 
  
  \begin{itemize}
  \item I'd like this piece of text to go below left and right 
        blocks of text throughout the page width but it stays 
        in the right block.
  \end{itemize}
  
  \end{block}
  \end{column}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>while i would like the \end{column} to appear before \begin{itemize}.
  I guess we can tell Beamer to stop the block but could not find out.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong>: <em>i found meanwhile a workaround solution, which is to create a new block without title (using ***[blank]) to contain the fullwidth text (see below). However, this is not exactly what i expected as this last block has all the properties of a block, in particular a background color.</em>  </p>
  
  <pre><code>*** Left block                         :B_column:
          :PROPERTIES:
          :BEAMER_env: block
          :BEAMER_col: 0.5
          :END:
  
           My left block of text here
  
      *** Right block                        :B_column:
          :PROPERTIES:
          :BEAMER_env: block
          :BEAMER_col: 0.48
          :END:   
  
          My right block of text here. 
  
  
        ***  
        I'd like this piece of text to go below left and right 
        blocks of text throughout the page width but it stays 
        in the right block.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Edit 2</strong>: <em>The solution proposed by rvf0068 works well. Let me post the whole source code</em>. Using org-mode shortcuts, Ctrl-C Ctrl-B when positioned on the ***[blank] headline, prompts you for the block type, for which 'i' (B_ignoreheading) is what you need._</p>
  
  <pre><code>*** Left block                         :B_column:
          :PROPERTIES:
          :BEAMER_env: block
          :BEAMER_col: 0.5
          :END:
  
           My left block of text here
  
      *** Right block                        :B_column:
          :PROPERTIES:
          :BEAMER_env: block
          :BEAMER_col: 0.48
          :END:   
  
          My right block of text here. 
  
  
        ***                               :B_ignoreheading:
        :PROPERTIES:
        :BEAMER_env: ignoreheading
        :END:
        I'd like this piece of text to go below left and right 
        blocks of text throughout the page width but it stays 
        in the right block.
  </code></pre>