I have a slide in the beamer package with an itemize environment where some items slightly are too wide to fit in one line (according to LaTeX' automatic line break system). This is the code:
\documentclass{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
A polymorphism f is
\begin{itemize}
\item{\textbf{Malcev}, if $f(y,y,x) = f(x,y,y) = f(x,x,x) = x$}
\item{\textbf{majority}, if $f(x,x,y) = f(x,y,x) = f(y,x,x) = f(x,x,x) = x$}
\item{\textbf{sml}, if $f(x,x)=x, f(x,y)=f(y,x), f(f(x,y),z)=f(x,f(y,z))$}
\item{\textbf{2sml}, if $f(x,x)=x, f(x,y)=f(y,x), f(f(x,y),x)=f(x,y)$}
\end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
Because I find it visually acceptable to put every item in just one line, I surrounded every item entry with \mbox to prevent line break:
\item{\mbox{\textbf{majority}, if $f(x,x,y) = f(x,y,x) = f(y,x,x) = f(x,x,x) = x$}}
How do I work around this? My goal is to prevent the line break - it doesn't have to be with \mbox.
And as a secondary question, why is it behaving like that? I don't believe this is an intended behaviour...
\item \makebox[\linewidth][l]{\textbf{majority} ...}