Poster Title

[Matthias]

Hello all,
I am new to beamerposter and just started to look into it a couple of
days ago.
When trying to prepare a poster I came across the following problem:
I was assuming that:

\title[Fancy Posters]{Making Really Fancy Posters with \LaTeX}
\author[Dreuw \& Deselaers]{Philippe Dreuw and Thomas Deselaers}
\institute[RWTH Aachen University]{Human Language Technology and
Pattern Recognition,RWTH Aachen University}

would create a fairly large title in a header at the top of the
poster. However, I only get two very slim blue bars. The contents in
the [ ] seems to be put at the bottom of the poster. I have attached
the result of pdflatex example.tex to this email. Is there a trick or
some sort of configuration which goes wrong in my case? Also, when I
open the file example.tex xemacs gives me a strange warning message:

(1) (local-variables/warning) Error in File local-variables: Local
variables entry is missing the prefix

Backtrace follows:

signal(error ("Local variables entry is missing the prefix"))
# bind (args datum)
cerror("Local variables entry is missing the prefix")
apply(cerror "Local variables entry is missing the prefix" nil)
# bind (args datum)
error("Local variables entry is missing the prefix")
# bind (continue prefix prefixlen suffix start enable-local-eval)
# (unwind-protect ...)
# bind (force)
hack-local-variables-last-page(nil)
# bind (force)
hack-local-variables(nil)
#<compiled-function nil "...(5)" [find-file hack-local-variables] 2>
()
# (unwind-protect ...)
call-with-condition-handler(#<compiled-function
(__call_trapping_errors_arg__) "...(17)" [__call_trapping_errors_arg__
errstr error-message-string lwarn local-variables warning "Error in
%s: %s\n\nBacktrace follows:\n\n%s" "File local-variables" backtrace-
in-condition-handler-eliminating-handler] 8> #<compiled-function nil
"...(5)" [find-file hack-local-variables] 2>)
# (condition-case ... . ((error)))
# bind (find-file)
normal-mode(t)
# bind (nomodes after-find-file-from-revert-buffer noauto warn
error)
after-find-file(nil t)
# (unwind-protect ...)
# bind (inhibit-read-only error number truename rawfile nowarn
filename buf)
find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer "example.tex"> "/home/mjerg/TEXES/
beamerposter/example.tex" nil nil "/home/mjerg/TEXES/beamerposter/
example.tex" (2097158 2055))
byte-code("..." [number truename rawfile nowarn filename buf set-
buffer-major-mode find-file-noselect-1] 7)
# (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "Â!Ã @ A\"" [buf data
kill-buffer signal] 3))))
# bind (number truename buf wildcards rawfile nowarn filename)
find-file-noselect("/home/mjerg/TEXES/beamerposter/example.tex" nil
nil nil)
# bind (wildcards codesys filename)
find-file("/home/mjerg/TEXES/beamerposter/example.tex")
# bind (dir file-count line end-of-options file-p arg tem)
command-line-1()
# bind (command-line-args-left)
command-line()
# (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code " Â" [error-data data nil]
1))))
# bind (error-data)
normal-top-level()
# (condition-case ... . error)
# (catch top-level ...)

Could that have anything to do with it? I highly appreciate any help
or hint you could give me. I am quite happy to produce my slides with
beamer and would love to use your beamerposter now to also create my
conference posters.

Thanks in advance,

Matthias

[Philippe Dreuw]

Hi Matthias,

the strange backtrace error dump might be due the missing "% End:" in
the example.tex, i.e your file end should look like this:

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
%%% End:

I already updated the example zip folder on my webpage.

For the title of course you have to use another beamertheme than
"Berlin" as the title is written in the lower lines; or you would have
to work with sections. Check the beamerthemes available in the
beamerposter group or on my webpage
http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php

[Matthias]

Hi Philippe,
thanks for your quick reply. If I understand you correctly you are
saying that there is no dedicated title section in the theme "Berlin".
One has to either modify one of the other themes according to one
needs or to directly work with beamer environments like blocks etc. in
the tex-file itself, right? If that's correct than I just
underestimated the flexibility of beamerposter. I thought there is one
dedicated command to create a title section and that's it. Haven't
worked with LaTeX in a little while ;-)

Thanks,

Matthias

On Nov 17, 9:52 am, "Philippe Dreuw" <dr...@cs.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> the strange backtrace error dump might be due the missing "% End:" in
> the example.tex, i.e your file end should look like this:
>
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-PDF-mode: t
> %%% End:
>
> I already updated the example zip folder on my webpage.
>
> For the title of course you have to use another beamertheme than
> "Berlin" as the title is written in the lower lines; or you would have
> to work with sections. Check the beamerthemes available in the

> beamerposter group or on my webpagehttp://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~dreuw/latexbeamerposter.php