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1. Ncolumntop 5 7 newdynamicframe 5 newflowframe 5 newstaticframe 5 normalsize 2 paragraph 4 112. application can be used for this purpose Although principally designed as a graphics application you can also use it to create a ATRX 2e package based on the flowfram package JpgfDraw s user manual has a step by step example that creates a poster If you are put off using a GUI because you find it difficult to use a mouse the latest version of JpgfDraw provides keyboard alternatives You will need to type in all the co ordinates but you can instantly see the effects lhttp theoval cmp uea ac uk nlct jpgfdraw 2http theoval cmp uea ac uk nlct jpgfdraw manual postertutorial html 10 Index maketitle 4 scriptsize 2 section 4 aOposter class 1 4 setallflowframes 8 a0 option 2 setallstaticframes 8 a0b option 2 setflowframe 6 8 al option 2 setstaticframe 8 a2 option 2 small 2 a3 option 2 staticcontents environment 7 landscape option 2 staticcontents environment 7 portrait option 2 staticfigure environment 7 article class 1 4 statictable environment 7 subsection 4 baselineskip 6 subsubsection 4 columnsep 6 computeflowframearea 7 courier package 2 vcolumnsep 5 6 VERYHuge 2 VeryHuge 2 tiny 2 endinput 4 ffareaheight 7 veryHuge 2 ffareawidth 7 ffareax 7 xcolor package 4 etareny dvipsnames option 4 flowfram package 5 7 9 10 footnotesize 2 helvet package 2 Huge 2 huge 2 LARGE 2 Large 2 large 2 mathptmx package 2
3. The contents of the static and dynamic frames need to be set explicitly using one of the available commands or environments The contents of a static frame are stored in a savebox and so are typeset only once whereas the contents of dynamic frames are stored in a macro and so are typeset everytime the frame is displayed Since posters typically only have one page this is something we don t need to worry about however you do need to consider the stacking order This is the order in which all the frames are laid down on the page First the static frames are placed on the page starting with the first static frame to be defined then the flow frames are placed on the page starting with the first flow frame to be defined and finally the dynamic frames are placed on the frame starting with the first dynamic frame to be defined If two frames are positioned in the same location the frame above will partially obscur the frame below For my example poster I would like to lay out the contents as shown in Figure 1 The top frame is going to be a static frame as it s only going to contain the title The four long frames containing the document text will be flow frames The frame containing the wide table will also be a static frame The flowfram package provides the following commands to create new frames newstaticframe lt width gt lt height gt lt a gt lt y gt lt label gt newf lowframe lt width gt lt height gt lt 2
4. setflowframe 2 3 y offset height ffareaheight Finally we need to add a static frame that spans the two middle frames Earlier we used computef lowframearea 2 3 This computed the entire area covered by the two middle frames so the length ffareawidth now stores the total width covered by the two frames This will also be the width of the new static frame We ve already decided that the height of this new frame should be 5in and the y co ordinate will be Oin so that its base lies level with the two end flow frames The x co ordinate should be the same as the x co ordinate of the second flow frame which is currently stored in ffareax So we now have all the information to make the new static frame newstaticframe ffareawidth 5in ffareax 0in table I gave the static frame the label table so that I don t have to remember its IDN I can also assign a label to the first static frame that was created using Ncolumntop setstaticframe 1 label title You can use the staticcontents or staticcontents environment to set the contents of a static frame If the frame has a label you can use the starred version otherwise you must use the non starred form with the IDN So to put the title into the static frame labelled title begin staticcontents title maketitle end staticcontents You can t put floats into a static or dynamic frame but the flowfram package provides the alternative environments staticfigure a
5. Creating Technical Posters With ETRX Nicola Talbot http theoval cmp uea ac uk nlct Tuesday 23 January 2007 Contents 1 Introduction 1 2 Setting the paper size and large fonts 1 3 Title and Section Headings fonts and colours 2 4 Text Layout 5 5 Using a GUI to construct frames 10 Index 10 1 Introduction In the field of research conference papers sometimes have to be accompanied by a poster presentation You have produced the article in ATRX but what about the poster presentation It needs to be large say AO it needs to use a large font the standard one or two column formats don t apply and howabout a splash of colour Can this be done in ATEX The answer is yes and this document will show you how using a worked example This examples listed in the document can be downloaded from http theoval cmp uea ac uk latex posters examples 2 Setting the paper size and large fonts The aQposter class file is well suited for creating large posters It is based on the article class file but uses large paper sizes and large fonts The following class options govern the paper size and orientation landscape landscape default portrait portrait ab DIN AO big default a0 DIN AO al DIN Al a2 DIN A2 a3 DIN A3 The available font sizes and their declarations are shown in Table 1 You will need to make sure you use scalable fonts as the standard Computer Modern fonts won t be available in large sizes For the Ti
6. graph but they can be similiarly redefined You should use the command endinput to indicate the end of the package I then created a document called poster tex that looked like documentclass a0 landscape a0poster usepackage mathptmx usepackage scaled 90 helvet usepackage courier usepackage postercols title A Sample Poster Created Using LaTeX author Nicola Talbot School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich Norfolk NR4 7TJ and Gavin Cawley School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich Norfolk NR4 7TJ date begin document maketitle thispagestyle empty section Introduction This is a sample poster end document 4 Text Layout As it stands the poster tex file created in the previous section is in a one column format which isn t much use for a poster and neither is the standard two column format either Most of my posters tend to have four columns with maybe a figure or table spanning a couple of columns and the title spanning all columns This can be achieved using the flowfram package The flowfram package defines three types of frame flow frames static frames and dynamic frames The flow frames are the principle type of frame The document text will flow from one flow frame to the next in the order that the frames were defined just as text flows from the left column to the right column in 4TRX s standard two column mode
7. gt lt y gt lt label gt newdynamicframe lt width gt lt height gt lt a gt lt y gt lt label gt where lt width gt and lt height gt are the width and height of the frame and lt z gt and lt y gt are the x and y co ordinates of the bottom left hand corner of the frame with respect to the bottom left hand corner of the typeblock It can be quite fiddly trying to determine the dimensions and co ordinates but for tunately the flowfram package provides some commands that create predefined layouts One of these commands is Ncolumntop lt type gt lt n gt lt H gt This command creates an lt n gt column layout with a lt type gt frame of height lt H gt across the top where lt type gt is one of static flow or dynamic This is very similar to the layout for our example The vertical gap between the header frame and the column frames is given by vcolumnsep and the gap between the columns is given by Title goes here Text starts in this Text moves into column this column Text carries on in Finally text goes this column into this column Awide table goes here Figure 1 Example Poster Layout columnsep These lengths are both 10pt by default which is too small for such a large poster Therefore I am going to change both these values to baselineskip setlength vcolumnsep baselineskip setlength columnsep vcolumnsep We can now create a four column layout wit
8. h a 4in high static frame for the title Ncolumntop static 4 4in next we can modify the two middle frames to make them shorter Each frame has an identification number IDN unique to that frame type and in this case the two middle frames have IDNs 2 and 3 since they were the second and third flow frames to be created The height and y co ordinate can be changed using setflowframe lt idn list gt lt key val list gt I want the frame containing the wide table to be 5in high so the y co ordinate for the middle flow frames needs to be 5in plus a small gap and the height of the middle flow frames will need to be shortened by that amount The poster would look more balanced if this gap is the same as the gap between the header static frame and the flow frames below it i e vcolumnsep So first define a new length and set it to 5in vcolumnsep newlength offset setlength offset 5in addtolength offset vcolumsep This gives us the new y co ordinate for the two middle frames but how do we work out the height You can find out the bounds of a flow frame or a selection of flow frames using computeflowframearea lt JDN list gt This command stores the bounds in the lengths ffareawidth ffareaheight ffareax and ffareay So to work out the new height for the middle frames computef lowframearea 2 3 addtolength ffareaheight offset Now reset the bounds of the two middle frames using these new values
9. mes Helvetica Courier combination use the mathptmx helvet and courier packages usepackage mathptmx usepackage scaled 90 helvet usepackage courier Table 1 Font sizes supplied by the a0poster class tiny 12pt scriptsize 14 4pt footnotesize 17 28pt small 20 74pt normalsize 24 88pt large 29 86pt Large 35 83pt LARGE 43pt huge 51 6pt Huge 61 92pt veryHuge 74 3pt VeryHuge 89 16pt VERYHuge 107pt 3 Title and Section Headings fonts and colours A bit of colour makes a poster more interesting BUT DON T GO OVER THE TOP The easiest way to change the fonts and colours used in the title and section headings is to create a small package that redefines the relevant commands For example I m going to make a poster with a Huge bold sans serif navy blue title the names of the authors will appear in large sans serif cornflower blue and the sub section headings will all appear in sans serif royal blue To do this I am going to use my text editor to create a file called postercols sty and type in the following NeedsTeXFormat LaTeX2e ProvidesPackage postercols RequirePackage dvipsnames xcolor renewcommand maketitle newpage null vskip 2em begin center let footnote thanks f set colour and font for the title color NavyBlue sffamily bfseries Huge title par vskip 1 5em f set colour and font for the author color CornflowerBlue sffamily large lineskip 5em begin
10. nd statictable These environments may have a caption and label but as their names suggest they don t float So to put a table into the static frame labelled table begin staticcontents table begin statictable caption A very wide table that spans two columns label tab wide table contents end statictable end staticcontents At the moment the frames don t have any borders you can add a plain border using the border key in setflowframe and setstaticframe Since I want to adda border to all the frames I shall use setallflowframes and setallstaticframes setallflowframes border plain setallstaticframes border plain Putting it all together documentclass a0 landscape a0poster usepackage mathptmx usepackage scaled 90 helvet usepackage courier usepackage postercols usepackage flowfram setlength vcolumnsep baselineskip setlength columnsep vcolumnsep Ncolumntop static 4 4in setstaticframe 1 label title newlength offset setlength offset 5in addtolength offset vcolumnsep computef lowframearea 2 3 addtolength ffareaheight offset setflowframe 2 3 y offset height ffareaheight newstaticframe ffareawidth 5in ffareax 0in table setstaticframe 2 clear setallflowframes border plain setallstaticframes border plain title A Sample Poster Created Using LaTeX author Nicola Talbot School of Computing Sciences Uni
11. tabular t c author end tabular par vskip 1em set colour and font for the date color CornflowerBlue sffamily large date end center par vskip 1 5em renewcommand section startsection section 1 z 3 5ex plus 1ex minus 2ex 2 3ex plus 2ex color RoyalBlue sffamily Large bfseries renewcommand subsection startsection subsection 2 z 3 25ex plus 1ex minus 2ex 1 5ex plus 2ex color RoyalBlue sffamily large bfseries endinput Notes e All ATEX 2s packages should start with NeedsTeXFormat LaTeX2e e You need to declare the name of the package This is just the file name without the sty extension ProvidesPackage postercols The xcolor package provides driver independent access to several kinds of colour tints shades tones and colour mixtures The option dvipsnames allows the use of the dvips colour names e g RoyalBlue So the fact that I want to use PDFIE TRX rather than ATEX won t make a difference I copied the definition of naketitle from the article class file which is loaded by the aQposter class file into postercols sty and edited it to use colour and fonts of my choice Similarly I copied the definition of section and subsection from the article class file into postercols sty and edited the font declarations My poster isn t going to go lower than sub sections so I haven t bothered to redefine subsubsection and para
12. versity of East Anglia Norwich Norfolk NR4 7TJ and Gavin Cawley School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich Norfolk NR4 7TJ date begin document begin staticcontents title maketitle end staticcontents thispagestyle empty section Introduction This is the main body of the poster subsection A Sub Section Here s a sub section that references the wide table see Table ref tab wide this just fills the empty columns framebreak mbox framebreak mbox framebreak mbox begin staticcontents table begin statictable caption A very wide table that spans two columns label tab wide table contents end statictable end staticcontents end document The flowfram package sometimes produces extra pages if you don t fill all the flow frames defined on the page You can either ignore it while you are still editing your document or if you find that you have finished your document with one or more frames to spare you can insert framebreak mbox for each spare frame 5 Using a GUI to construct frames If you find the idea of trying to determine the area and position of frames a bit daunting or if you d like to create fancy borders around your frames but find it too tricky to do in ATRX you may prefer to use a graphical user interface GUI to construct the frames and possibly draw in the borders and add colour to the backgrounds The JpgfDraw
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