Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. I've looked around some,
> and I don't believe it can. However, I wanted to ask you all first before
> giving up on using it to make one.
i'm just fighting the same problem. friend pointed me to baposter class. it
took half day to configure lyx so it recognize this class and setup bit ugly
preamble and opening erts, but once it is setup it is sweet sweet sweet!
if one has interest to do nifty graphical things i would rather use eg corel,
but if you dont have much time and need reasonble good output this is a really
nice package.
next poster could be done very quickly from now on...
the new boxes are defined by trivial erts which states column,row and relative
position (above, below) to already defined boxes and possible spanning, eg.
\headerbox{Box title}{name=box2,column=1,below=box1,span=2}{
everything after this ert is just normal lyxing, so basically copy&paste
from your paper...
the site is here:
http://www.brian-amberg.de/uni/poster/
i even though we can add this layout plus some example poster to manuals in
lyx. then i would need some help from experienced TeXers though, since my
layout/preamble/erts work but are one big mess :)
one drawback is is that you need to switch to texlive from tetex if you are
still on it. i have tried to make this switch on one of my boxes and now
studying
the damages on the docs i'm currently working. except that ToC got insane for
longer section names i havent find much other problems so far. (btw any
hints from others for what should i check or how to turn back ToC entries to
be again multiline for a longer titles?)
another issue is small glitch with updating output pdf/postcript. i suspect
lyx wrongly parses latex log output and doesn't run latex enough times,
which results in losing poster background. i havent time to track this down
yet, but there is easy workaround if you want complete rebuild of course :)
pavel
