On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 03:09:57PM -0700, foxfanfare wrote:
> Simon Albrecht-2 wrote
> > Maybe. LaTeX becomes less of a good choice the more you actually
> > want to design the visuals. In a scientific paper, looks don’t
> > matter at all, it’s only about the content; that’s where LaTeX is
> > perfect, no doubt. If you’re going to design a poster, LaTeX is most
> > certainly not the tool of choice, because you want to have total
> > control over where everything is placed; visuals are essential.  A
> > cover page is somewhere inbetween, but further to the poster side,
> > I’d say.
> 
> Interesting. The total control of the layout is very important for me
> to achieve this task.  Especially for the cover which (I agree with
> you) I'd like to be more of a poster than a simple text...  Maybe it
> is worth a try using LP and the markups for this... Although I'm a
> little worried that no one seems to use it that way!
[...]

I've used LP and markups for title pages before.  It's *possible*,
though somewhat klunky.  It entailed a lot of looking up various markup
commands in the LP reference, tweaking things, and doing tedious work
like wrapping paragraphs manually, etc..


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