AlterLab LaTeX Posters
Skill Verified ActivePart of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite. Create professional research posters in LaTeX using beamerposter, tikzposter, or baposter. Support for conference presentations, academic posters, and scientific communication. Includes layout design, color schemes, multi-column formats, figure integration, and poster-specific best practices for visual communication.
To empower researchers and academics to efficiently create professional, visually appealing, and informative research posters using LaTeX, with integrated AI assistance for graphic elements.
Features
- Create professional research posters in LaTeX
- Support for beamerposter, tikzposter, baposter
- Guidance on layout design and visual hierarchy
- Strict rules for AI-generated graphics (content, font size)
- Templates and comprehensive documentation
Use Cases
- Designing posters for academic conferences and symposia
- Creating visual summaries of research for events
- Ensuring posters comply with specific size requirements
- Integrating AI-generated visuals seamlessly into LaTeX templates
Non-Goals
- Generating the full research paper content
- Providing general LaTeX typesetting tutorials
- Designing posters for non-academic purposes
- Automating the entire conference submission process
Workflow
- Plan poster content and visual elements
- Generate AI graphics adhering to strict poster format rules
- Select and customize a LaTeX template (beamerposter, tikzposter, baposter)
- Integrate AI-generated figures and supporting text
- Compile LaTeX to PDF
- Review PDF quality and test print
- Finalize and prepare for printing or digital sharing
Practices
- Visual Design
- Scientific Communication
- LaTeX Best Practices
- AI Prompt Engineering
Prerequisites
- LaTeX distribution (e.g., TeX Live, MiKTeX)
- Python 3.6+ (for AI prompt generation scripts)
- Access to helper scripts for AI image generation
Installation
npx skills add AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-SkillsRuns the Vercel skills CLI (skills.sh) via npx — needs Node.js locally and at least one installed skills-compatible agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …). Assumes the repo follows the agentskills.io format.
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