posterdown_html
posterdown_html generates a "classic" scientific conference poster where there are two main components: (1) the title scetion and (2) the body. The title contains a title, author names and affiliations, as well as logos. The body contains the columns of the poster where the content is inserted top-to-bottom and left-to-right. See the live example poster here or click the image bellow!
| YAML Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| title | "A Title" | The title of the poster. If you wish to use markdown syntax within the title please use quotations. |
| poster_height | "38in" | Height in inches of poster. |
| poster_width | "45in" | Width in inches of poster. |
| font_family | Palatino | Font family for the poster text. Standard HTML fonts or google fonts can be used. To change the font of the poster title see titletext_fontfamily. |
| titletext_fontfamily | Palatino | Font family for the title of the poster, see font_family for more options. |
| author | none | List of the authors. Contains sub options for a list of authors and their affiliation: name & affil
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| affiliation | none | List of affiliations of the authors. |
| YAML Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| primary_colour | "#008080" | Main colour used for poster design. |
| secondary_colour | "#0b4545" | Secondary colour use for poster design. |
| accent_colour | "#cc0000" | A third colour option for adding some "pop" to the poster colour palette. |
| YAML Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| titlebox_bordercol | "#0b4545" | Colour of the title box border. |
| titlebox_borderwidth | "0cm" | Width of the title box border. |
| title_textcol | "#ffffff" | Colour of title text |
| author_textcol | "#0b4545" | Colour of author text. |
| affiliation_textcol | "#FFFFFF" | Colour of affiliation text. |
| title_textsize | "75pt" | Poster title fontsize. |
| author_textsize | "50pt" | Author list font size. |
| affiliation_textsize | "40pt" | Affiliation font size. |
| logoleft_name | "Figures/posterdownlogo.png" | Location of the image to use. |
| logoright_name | "Figures/posterdownlogo.png" | Location of the image to use. |
| YAML Option | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| body_bgcol | "#ffffff" | Colour of the poster main background. |
| body_textsize | "45px" | Size of the main poster body text. |
| body_textcol | "#000000" | Colour of main text in the body of poster. |
| column_numbers | 3 | Number of columns that the poster body has. |
| column_margins | "0.5in" | Margin spacing for columns. |
| columnline_col | "#008080" | Colour of the column line dividers. |
| columnline_width | "1mm" | Width of line between each column. |
| columnline_style | dashed | Style of the column line seperator. |
| sectitle_textcol | "#ffffff" | Colour of the poster section titles. |
| sectitle_textsize | "65pt" | Text size of the section titles (H1). |
| sectitle2_textsize | "40pt" | Text size of the section titles (H2). |
| sectitle_bgcol | "#0b4545" | Colour of the section title box. |
| sectitle_bordercol | "#0b4545" | Colour of the border around the section title box. |
| sectitle_borderwidth | "2mm" | Thicknes of the section title box border. |
| sectitle_boxshape | "4mm 0mm" | Changes the shape of the section title box. |
| sectitle2_textcol | "#0b4545" | Color of 2nd level header text. |
| link_col | "#0b4545" | Colour of other links within the poster. |