From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41636 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Wolfgang Schuster" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: (scientific) poster Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:24:12 +0200 Message-ID: <115224fb0806130424i171b0658j52faf023a86fbd3b@mail.gmail.com> References: <30c383e70806130403j534b1344v4f94e8087e7e1875@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213356363 25805 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2008 11:26:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:26:03 +0000 (UTC) To: vim.unix@gmail.com, "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 13 13:26:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K77QN-00082c-TH for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:26:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28F471FC11; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12741-02-10; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 277FA1FC00; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:25:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24DA1FBEF for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10592-08-13 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3936C1FC00 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:24:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so3075914ywm.74 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.122.13 with SMTP id u13mr4321781ybc.69.1213356253079; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:24:13 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.113.9 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:24:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <30c383e70806130403j534b1344v4f94e8087e7e1875@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41636 Archived-At: On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Pau wrote: > Hi, > > I have googled, looked in the pragma site etc for a template (style) > of an a0 poster. Doing this with latex is a bit of a nightmare and the > result is not very appealing. > I am looking for something in the size of a0 with embedded boxes with > plots, equations etc. If such a file existed and was to be found > somewhere I'd be grateful if you gave me a link. > > thanks You could use Layers, Overlays, backgrounds etc. \setuppapersize[A0][A0] \definelayer [posterbox] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=posterbox] \setupbodyfont[50pt] \starttext \startstandardmakeup \setlayerframed [posterbox] [x=10cm,y=7cm] [width=40cm,align=right] {\input knuth\par} \setlayerframed [posterbox] [x=23cm,y=67cm] [width=40cm,align=right] {\input tufte\par} \stopstandardmakeup \stoptext Greetings Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________