context tex poster template

Question

There are Latex poster package, such as beamerposter, baposter, a0poster .

Any such resource for making a conference poster in ConTeXt TeX?

Answer 1

See also Aditya's blog post Making visaully attractive posters in ConTeXt. While it does not provide you with a ready-made example, it gives a very good conceptual overview.

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I have come up with a (quite) minimal example for a poster. As Aditya commented it mainly boils down to setting the paper size and the font size and the typesetting stuff in columns.

CAVEAT: I'm using columnset which seems to have some difficulties with MkIV. For instance \placefigure does not seem to play nicely with it. If you run into problems, ask on the mailing list. Hans is very responsive and his usual answer is »Fixed in next beta«.

\environment poster-environment

\setupbodyfont[sansserif]

\starttext

\setvariables
  [metadata]
  [
    title={My really long and super awesome research title that spans
      multiple lines},
    author={Good guys},
    institute={Institute of the Holy Cow, Ridderstraat 27, 8061GH
      Hasselt, The Netherlands},
    logo={\externalfigure[cow][width=10cm]},
  ]

\startcolumnset[threecolumn]

  \startblock[title=Introduction]
    \input lorem
  \stopblock

  \startblock[title=Knuth]
    \input knuth
  \stopblock

  \startblock[title=Ward]
    \input ward
  \stopblock

\column

  \startblock[title=Zapf]
    \input zapf
  \stopblock

  \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]

  \startblock[title=Hawking]
    \input hawking
  \stopblock

\column

  \startblock[title=Douglas]
    \input Douglas
  \stopblock

  \startblock[title=Bryson]
    \input bryson
  \stopblock

  \externalfigure[cow][width=\textwidth]

\stopcolumnset

\stoptext

Because it is good practice to keep style and content separated, I have factored out all the layout into poster-environment.tex. Of course, it does not look so pretty right now, but adding eye-candy is easy. See Aditya's impressive git tutorial for details.

\startenvironment *

\setuppapersize[A0][A0]

\setupbodyfont[25pt]

\setuplayout
  [
    cutspace=5cm,
    leftmargin=4cm,
    leftmargindistance=1cm,
    width=middle,
    rightmargindistance=1cm,
    rightmargin=4cm,
    backspace=5cm,
    %
    topspace=4cm,
    header=10cm,
    headerdistance=5cm,
    height=middle,
    footerdistance=0pt,
    footer=0pt,
    bottomspace=5cm,
  ]

\setupbackgrounds
  [page]
  [background=color,backgroundcolor=gray]

\definecolumnset
  [threecolumn]
  [n=3]

\setupcolumnset
  [threecolumn][each]
  [
    distance=3cm,
    background=color,
    backgroundcolor=white,
    backgroundoffset=1cm,
    frame=on,
    frameoffset=1cm,
    rulethickness=1pt,
  ]
\setupcolumnset[threecolumn][1][distance=0pt]

\definestyle
  [titlestyle]
  [style={\tfd\setupinterlinespace\WORD}]
\definestyle
  [authorstyle]
  [style={\tfc\setupinterlinespace}]
\definestyle
  [institutestyle]
  [style={\tfb\setupinterlinespace}]

\startsetups header:title
  \framed
    [
      frame=off,
      height=\headerheight,
      width=\dimexpr\makeupwidth-10cm\relax,
      align=middle,
    ]{%
      \titlestyle{\getvariable{metadata}{title}\par}

      \vfill

      \authorstyle{\getvariable{metadata}{author}\par}

      \vfill

      \institutestyle{\getvariable{metadata}{institute}\par}
    }
\stopsetups

\startsetups header:logo
  \framed
    [
      frame=off,
      height=\headerheight,
      width=10cm,
      align=middle,
    ]{%
      \getvariable{metadata}{logo}
    }
\stopsetups

\setupheadertexts[\setups{header:logo}][\setups{header:title}]
\setuppagenumbering[location=]

\definehead
  [block]
  [subject]  
  [
    style=\bfa,
    align=middle,
    before={\blank[line]},
    after={\blank[line]},
    textcommand={\framed[width=.9\textwidth]},
  ]

\stopenvironment