On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:05:31PM +0100, Stuart Prescott wrote: > I agree with your sentiments about latex being quite useful; indeed, it is > the > only thing that I currently use for writing up my work. > > But I'm talking about a poster here not a paper. A poster is an entirely > visual thing where you do the layout; latex is an entirely text-based thing > where the TeX typesetting engine does the hard work and does the layout for > you. These two things seem to be at the opposite ends of the scale hence my > question about whether latex would be a viable alternative. > > Have you ever used latex to produce a poster? Care to share the latex code > (and final product)? Learning by example is always easiest!
There is an example of a latex poster in the texlive-science-doc package at: /usr/share/doc/texlive-science-doc/latex/sciposter/sciposterexample/ Miguel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
