On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:58:38 -0500 Daniel Joshua Stark <ds4...@rice.edu> wrote:
> Dear All, > > I was wondering if LyX can handle making posters. I've looked around > some, and I don't believe it can. However, I wanted to ask you all > first before giving up on using it to make one. > > Thanks! > It can be done, not necessarily the best and or easiest way though. For the poster I use a0poster from here http://andreas.welcomes-you.com/projects/a0poster/ which I think may be newer than this http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~marchini/a0poster.html Looks like there is some kind of layout file here http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63740.html don't know how good it is or if it still alive. I find it best to combine multicols and for boxes either minipage and for a fancier look pdfpages with beamer For more complicated stuff I use scribus