org-mode-poster/src/org-mode-poster_poster.org

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Background   B_block

• Org-mode is not only useful for producing blog posts and even scientific manuscripts; it is also perfectly suitable to make decent looking scientific posters
• We combine a relatively simple custom \LaTeX style file and common org-mode syntax
• The nice thing about org-mode is that we can populate the poster with code, graphs and numbers from inline code in languages such as R, python, Matlab and even shell scripting
• Inline code would look like this, which will produce a graph (Fig. /emacs/org-mode-poster/src/commit/fd78dc7eda33ad660dcfb5d3e5eb71d34498a0b1/src/figcode1):

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x <- rnorm(100, 0, 1)
hist(x, col="gray")

This is the output.

Methods: Inline code and tables   B_block

• In addition to inline code, we can also produce tables
• Tables are very powerful in org-mode, they even include spreadsheet capabilities
• Some code to process the vector from above to make a table out of its summary could look like this, which would result in a little table (Table /emacs/org-mode-poster/src/commit/fd78dc7eda33ad660dcfb5d3e5eb71d34498a0b1/src/tabcode2) :

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m <- round(mean(x), 2)
s <- round(sd(x), 2)
data.frame(Mean=m, SD=s)

\vspace{2cm}

Mean	SD
-0.07	0.97

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Results: graphics   B_block

• Of course we can also include graphics
• Here, we use shell scripting to grab an image with curl from the internet (Fig. /emacs/org-mode-poster/src/commit/fd78dc7eda33ad660dcfb5d3e5eb71d34498a0b1/src/figcode3):

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\footnotesize

curl -0 https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/images/emacs.png

\normalsize

\vspace{2cm}

This is the downloaded image.

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Conclusions   B_block

• This little example is meant to show how incredibly versatile org-mode is
• One can now produce scientific posters with a simple text editor