[julienchastang]

Having just gone down this road, here is the tech stack I used for putting together a scientific conference paper: emacs / org-mode / beamer / beamerposter.sty. I had to do a bit of reverse engineering from tex back to org-mode to determine the proper org-mode properties to have the beamer layout I wanted -- if that makes any sense. I also poked around in ox-beamer.el. In addition, I used Omnigraffle and the Gimp for graphics. I am happy with the end result, and the original org-mode file is clean and manageable. And, yes, less verbiage, the better for conference posters.

[iak8god]

This sounds interesting. Do you happen to have this up in a repository somewhere? I would love to use this set of tools, am familiar with beamer for slide decks, use omni and gimp for graphics, etc ... but currently just end up making my posters in a powerpoint template, which feels dirty.

[julienchastang]

https://github.com/Unidata/xsede-jetstream/tree/master/.org/...

[iak8god]

Thanks!