tudelft-poster

A latex class for TU Delft posters.

• This class requires a latex compiler generating a pdf, e.g. pdflatex or lualatex. Plain latex is not supported.

• As this document class uses absolute positioning with tikz, it is sometimes necessary to compile your document twice to get the positions of the poster header and footer right.

For the source of these examples, see example.tex and example_tikz.tex.

Requirements

This document class requires the following latex packages:

• geometry,
• xcolor,
• graphicx,
• tikz (with libraries calc and fadings),
• etoolbox,
• multicol and
• caption.

In Debian Wheezy and Jessie, installing texlive-latex-extra is sufficient.

Installation

Either clone this repository using git or download and unzip this zip file. No installation is required as long as you put your .tex file in the same directory as tudelftposter.cls.

Linux

If you do want to install the document class in a texmf tree, you can use the install python script. For example, run

./install --home

from within the tudelft-poster directory to install the document class in your TEXMFHOME directory. For other installation options, run install without arguments.

Usage

Begin your latex document with the line

\documentclass{tudelftposter}

The class supports the following options:

• landscape: Use landscape page orientation. You can also pass true or false to this option, e.g. landscape=true. The default page orientation is portrait.

• ncolumns=INT, where INT is a strict positive integer: Set the number of columns. Defaults to 2 for potrait posters and 3 for landscape.

• footerheight=DIM, where DIM is a dimension, e.g. 10cm: Set the height of the footer.

You can pass options to the class in the usual way, e.g.

\documentclass[landscape,ncolumns=4]{tudelftposter}

Header

In the preamble, i.e. the code before \begin{document}, you must specify the title of the poster with the following command:

\title{TITLE}

A subtitle is not supported.

Authors must be added one by one using the command \addauthor:

\addauthor{NAME}
\addauthor[LABEL1,LABEL2,...]{NAME}

Optionally, you can attach one or more notes to this author be specifying a comma-separated list of labels (LABEL1,LABEL2,...) pointing to notes defined by the command \addauthornote:

\addauthornote{LABEL}{TEXT}
\addauthornote{LABEL}[MARK]{TEXT}

This command defines footnotes in the header, which can be used to specify affiliations or email addresses. The argument LABEL should be a unique label pointing to this note. The optional argument MARK can be used to change the default symbol of this note to MARK.

The style of the title, authors and author notes are defined in the commands

• \tudstyleheadtitle,
• \tudstyleheadauthors and
• \tudstyleheadauthornotes.

You can redefine the styles in the preamble using \renewcommand. For example:

\renewcommand{\tudstyleheadtitle}{%
    \normalfont\rmfamily\color{white}\large\scshape}

Footer

The following commands are available in the preamble to add logos and text to the footer:

\addfootimage(ALIGNMENT:POSITION){FILENAME}
\addfootimage(ALIGNMENT:POSITION)[TEXT]{FILENAME}

\addfootobject(ALIGNMENT:POSITION){CODE}
\addfootobject(ALIGNMENT:POSITION)[TEXT]{CODE}
\addfootobject*(ALIGNMENT:POSITION){CODE}
\addfootobject*(ALIGNMENT:POSITION)[TEXT]{CODE}

\addfootqrcode(ALIGNMENT:POSITION){QRMESSAGE}
\addfootqrcode(ALIGNMENT:POSITION)[TEXT]{QRMESSAGE}

\addfoottext(ALIGNMENT:POSITION){TEXT}

The argument POSITION specifies the position of the object. There are several predefined positions:

• page.center,
• page.left,
• page.right,
• body.center,
• body.left,
• body.right,
• column<I>.center with <I> a column number starting at zero, e.g. column0.center,
• column<I>.left,
• column<I>.right,
• left column.center (alias of column0.center, equal to body.left),
• left column.left (alias of column0.left),
• left column.right (alias of column0.right),
• right column.center (alias of column<ncolumns-1>.center),
• right column.left (alias of column<ncolumns-1>.left) and
• right column.right (alias of column<ncolumns-1>.right, equal to body.right).

You can also specify a length. The argument ALIGNMENT controls the alignment with respect to POSITION and must be one of

• l (align left),
• c (align centre) or
• r (align right).

In the command \addfootimage the argument FILENAME should refer to an image. The image will be resized to fit the height of the image bar. If the optional argument TEXT is given, this will be placed underneath the image using the same position and alignment as the image.

The command \addfootobject can be used to place any object defined by CODE in the image bar. The object will be resized to fit the height of the image bar. The starred version does not resize the object.

The command \addfootqrcode generates a QR code containing QRMESSAGE, usually a URL.

The command \addfoottext places TEXT on the text bar.

Note that the TU Delft logo is not automatically added. See the example below how to add the logo.

Document body

The class inherits the article class, hence supports all the commands and environments defined there.

The default font is Latin Modern, a font based on Computer Modern Roman. The default font family is sans serif. If you want to change the default family to e.g. serif, add the following line to the preamble:

\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\rmdefault}

The style of sections, the title, authors and author notes are defined in the command \tudstylesection. You can redefine the styles in the preamble using \renewcommand. For example:

\renewcommand{\tudstylesection}{%
    \normalfont\rmfamily\Large\scshape\color{tudcyan}}

Tikz body

Alternatively, you can design the poster body completely using tikz. Just create a tikzpicture environment and start drawing. This class provides a special tikz node body which defines the drawable area. The following example draws a rectangle indicating the drawable area.

\documentclass{tudelftposter}
% preamble ...
\begin{document}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
        \draw (body.south west) rectangle (body.north east);
    \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

You can use the preamble from the example below.

Example

\documentclass{tudelftposter}

\title{The title}

\addauthor[mail One,A]{Author One}
\addauthor[A,B]{Author Two}

\addauthornote{mail One}[@]{\ttfamily author.one@tudelft.nl}
\addauthornote{A}{Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics}
\addauthornote{B}{Some other institute}

\addfootimage(c:right column.center)[DIAM, TU Delft]{tudelft}
\addfootqrcode(l:left column.left)[web page]{http://ta.twi.tudelft.nl}

\begin{document}
    \section{Introduction}
    ...
    \section{Conclusions}
    ...
    \section{References}
    ...
\end{document}