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- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] TeXmacs for poster presentations?
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 14:42:23 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi Alex ;-)!
I'm glad I was able to convince you of using TeXmacs :-). And in fact I have
used it to design a scientific poster. My approach was quite hacky, like in
the former pre-CSS webdesign days I used nested tables with multi-paragraph
cells to create the colored background and positioning of the text areas.
The drawback is you need a fast machine because TeXmacs really slows down
with nested tables of that size...
I've attached a pdf version of the poster. If anyone is interested, I could
post a .tm file as well, but there are some problems because it's about 2
years old, so it has got some issues with style files in the current TeXmacs
versions.
See you,
Benno.
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>Is TeXmacs suited for developing scientific posters for conferences? Has
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I never did it yet, but it should definitely be possible to use the
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graphics editor to do posters.
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To do it, the best would be to set the dimensions of the graphics
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to the height and the width of the page, using resp "1pag" for the
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height and "1par" for the width. This way, your graphics always fills
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the whole page.
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Then you can put different text boxes inside the graphics (but the
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edition is not very convenient in some cases, for example it is not
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very easy to deal with text boxes containing themselves another graphics).
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Finally, you can change the page size & set it to a bigger
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format (e.g, A1, A0, B0, etc.).
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(See the attached .tm file for a example that could be used as a
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starting point).
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To summarize, TeXmacs is not completely suited right now for developing
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posters, but you can already do it with some effort.
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Thank you for raising this question, in effect it is an interesting
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and very useful area. Now that the point has been noticed, I will
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not forget to include poster edition in the domains of interest
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for future developments, improvements, etc.
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>Whilst TeXmacs doesn't currently meet my needs for writing articles
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Why ?
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