Reduce indent in description in beamer

Question

In beamer, text in description items is over-indented:

\documentclass[14pt,handout]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{}
  \begin{description}
  \item[FooBarBazZot] - foo bar \\ baz zot
  \end{description}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

places bar under Zot in FooBarBazZot:

How do I place baz under, say, Bar in FooBarBazZot? (like it is placed in the, say, amsart et al).

Answer 1

You can modify the indention with \setbeamersize{description width=0.57cm}, just play around to whatever value you need.

\documentclass[14pt,handout]{beamer}

\setbeamersize{description width=0.57cm}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{}
  \begin{description}
  \item[FooBarBazZot] - foo bar \\ baz zot
  \end{description}
\end{frame}
\end{document}