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[Jose Ignacio Marquez Damian <address@hidden>]

I did this poster last year with a huge font size on A1 paper. Maybe it 
isn't the prettiest poster but it was straightforward to change the 
article into the poster.
Regards,
             Ignacio
You can see the source at:

http://ib.cnea.gov.ar/~marquezj/texmacs/poster/

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> Is TeXmacs suited for developing scientific posters for conferences? Has
> anyone done so and can give some pointers? 
>
> Whilst TeXmacs doesn't currently meet my needs for writing articles (although
> I still find it handy for writing and then exporting formulas or writing
> notes), it would seem like an area where TeXmacs' could play its strengths
> (quick and convenient math-entry and WYSIWYG which should mean quicker
> turnaround and exploration of design ideas) against LaTeX while not suffering
> much from its weaknesses (not many style-files etc.).
>
> Some other questions: TeXmacs has the "feature" that bold by default results
> in bold-italic in math mode -- is there an easy and covenient way to get bold
> symbols to be nonitalic by default in math mode (complying to the standard
> notation for linear algebra)? By convenient I mean it shouldn't result in more
> work for me then it currently takes to get a bold-italic symbol (pressing f6).
> In a similar vein, but less importantly, it might also be nice to have a bold
> mode that didn't result in bold symbols (as in latex), since that isn't
> typically what one wants.
>
> Another thing: I notice that TeXmacs gets the orientation of some eps files
> wrong (one example was something I generated in inkscape) that are correctly
> displayed by e.g. gv. What can be done to force a certain orientation?
>
> cheers,
>
> 'as
>

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