This is a LaTeX class for creating scientific posters in the corporate design of the Institute for Web Science and Technologies (WeST). It's style was adapted by Lukas from the WeST - Poster Template - 2015-03-23.ppt powerpoint template. It is implemented as a theme for LaTeX poster class tikzposter, so you should probably have a look at its manual.

Usage

Have a look example_poster.tex for how to use this class.

Currently the code can only be build using LuaLaTex, so make sure you have that installed. For compilation latexmk is recommended, if you have it installed you just have to perform:

git clone https://github.com/Institute-Web-Science-and-Technologies/WeSTposter.git
cd WeSTposter
latexmk

Of course you can also compile this class by calling lualatex manually.

Currently only A0 is supported as a paper size.

ToDo

Bus:

• Vertical spacing between title and content depending on title size.
• Vertical spacing between paragraphs.
• Vertical spacing between items in itemize environment (\itemsep).
• Move all code from packages section of .tex file into .cls file.
• Have better example content.

Additional Features:

• Supporting paper sizes other than A0.
• Subtitle command.
• Improve design of author field (move to the left?).
• Optional author picture.
• Support other latex engines (pdftex, etc).