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OOH Session #124…
Conference
Posters (I)

Open Office Hours
(April 07, 2026)

• Recap session #123
• Today’s topic(s):
  • Conference Posters (I)
• Shared problem-solving

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Recap of Session
#123:

Text Animations

• Quarto Reveal Slides
• Extension for

Several built–in animations intended only for Reveal slides (referred to in documentation as “fragments”):

.fade-out

.strike

.highlight-green

.fade-in-then-semi-out

.shrink + .highlight-current-red

.highlight-blue
+ .grow

quarto-animate works with all files & has
extensive capabilities

• Bouncy-Bouncy

• Flashy-Flashy

• Shake Y

• Jello

• Rubber Band

• Swing

• Tada!

• Wobble

• Heartbeat

Today…

Conference Posters (I)

Options:

• posterdown – /CRAN archive, css–modified with .pdf capability via pagedown:: chrome_print()

• poster_relaxed & poster_jacobs via pagedown

• postr – flexdashboard with webshot to .png (possibly )

• \(\LaTeX\) templates (beamerposter; tikzposter; a0poster) – specify template: within YAML

Options:

• Typst template – built–in to base distribution (1.4+)

• quarto_poster – will need to fork repo (not an extension)

• User templates (peace-of-posters; typst-poster) – specify template.typ or quarto use template

Session Info (April 07, 2026) Rendering:

R version 4.5.0 (2025-04-11 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19045)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.utf8 
[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.utf8   
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.utf8
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.utf8    

time zone: America/Chicago
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] compiler_4.5.0    fastmap_1.2.0     cli_3.6.5         tools_4.5.0      
 [5] htmltools_0.5.9   otel_0.2.0        rstudioapi_0.18.0 yaml_2.3.12      
 [9] rmarkdown_2.31    knitr_1.51        jsonlite_2.0.0    xfun_0.57        
[13] digest_0.6.39     rlang_1.1.7       evaluate_1.0.5