Package: mkposters
MkPostersCreate posters using Markdown. Supports icons, admonitions, and LaTeX mathematics.At the moment it is restricted to the specific layout of two-columns-with-banner-at-the-top, as that's what I tend to use. (Pull requests are welcome if you want to make this tool more general.) The poster can be either portrait or landscape.The library operates by parsing your Markdown into HTML, styling it with CSS, and then opening a webpage that you can export to PDF.ExampleThe "source code" for this example ishere.AssumptionsAssumes you have:Linux (WSL is fine) or macOSFirefoxPythonCompatibility with other operating systems is probably possible by switching out the version of Dart Sass being used internally.Compatibility with other browsers is unlikely.You'll need to be relatively familiar with HTML and (S)CSS to make best use of MkPosters.Installationpip install mkpostersUsage instructionsCreate the appropriate directory structurefoo/
    poster.md
    ...any other assets e.g. images...Lay out your posterposter.mdshould be formatted in three sections, with a literal "--split--" between each section....whatever you want in the banner at the top...

--split--

...whatever you want in the left column...

--split--

...whatever you want in the right column...Build posterRun from the directory containingfoo:bash> python -m mkposters foo(The first time you do this MkPosters will attempt to automatically detect system architecture and install the appropriate required build ofdart-sass. This was tested working on both an Apple M1 and Ubuntu x86_64 machine.)View posterNow open Firefox (notChrome etc.) and navigate tolocalhost:8000/poster.html.What you see will be based on the size of your current browser window and may differ from the PDF version. So next hitControl-Pand select "Save to PDF". What you see in the print preview is what you'll actually end up with!Make all your edits until you're happy with the result. Now let's save the result to PDF.Save to PDFSaving to PDF can be quite finickity, and in general depends on choice of browser etc. (For what it's worth the following is tested using Firefox on Windows 10 withmkpostersrunning on Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2.)In the print dialog window we opened above:Destination: "Save to PDF".Do not use "Microsoft Print to PDF".Orientation: (portrait or landscape, as desired)Pages: Custom: 1Paper size: (whatever is desired; current styling works best on paper roughly A4 sized)Margins: NoneOptions: uncheck "Print headers and footers"Once again, make sure you're using Firefox.Using other browsers (e.g. Chrome) or other PDF exporters (e.g. WeasyPrint) can introduce a variety of issues, such as saving text as images (which are unselectable in the PDF, and appear slightly pixelated), missing parts of the styling, or having faded colours (looking at you, Chrome).FunctionalityMkPosters comes with a few extra pieces of functionality built in.IconsRecalling that Markdown can embed HTML, then icons can be embedded via e.g.<imgstyle="height: 20pt; width: 20pt"src="icons/fontawesome/brands/github.svg">where the list of available icons ishere.MathematicsYou can use LaTeX-formatted mathematics. This is done via\\(inline math\\)
\\[display math\\]Note the double backslash.AdmonitionsAdmonitions can be added using the syntax!!! admonition_type "Your title here"

    Your text herewhereadmonition_typeis any ofthesetypes, e.g.info,tip, etc.HTMLThe Markdown format allows you use arbitrary HTML inside of it.The banner section often contains information (titles, authors, logos, URLs etc.) laid out in complicated ways. Directly writing HTML with embeddedstyleattributes is simplest here.See the start of this example.HTML can be (ab)used to modify spacing like so. (Analogous to those little\vspaces you definitely never use in LaTeX documents.) In this example we move the content up by 10 points.<div style="margin-top: -10pt;">
...your content here...
</div>Future plans?It'd be nice to support:Custom per-poster SCSS;Other poster layouts;Handling other paper sizes;Optionally automatically generating the PDF. (Practically speaking probably by automating the Firefox interaction through Selenium.)Reducing package size by not including all of themkposters/third_party/iconsdirectory by default?Pull requests welcome! SeeCONTRIBUTING.md.Similar toolsThese all support some kind of conversion Markdown -> something.For documentation:MkDocswithmkdocs-material.For presentations:reveal.jsFor static sites:HugoorJekyll