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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/univie-ling/doc/univie-ling-poster.tex b/macros/latex/contrib/univie-ling/doc/univie-ling-poster.tex index 4c78545c2d..dcd04b3338 100644 --- a/macros/latex/contrib/univie-ling/doc/univie-ling-poster.tex +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/univie-ling/doc/univie-ling-poster.tex @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ \author{\texorpdfstring{Jürgen Spitzmüller% \thanks{Please report issues via \protect\url{https://github.com/jspitz/univie-ling}.}}{Jürgen Spitzmüller}} -\date{Version 2.4, 2023/03/31} +\date{Version 2.5, 2024/05/09} \maketitle @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ The following class and packages are required and loaded by \uvlt: \item \textsf{l3keys}: Key-value interface for class options. \item \textsf{translator}: Localization machinery. \item \textsf{url}: Support for typesetting URLs. + \item \textsf{tikzpagenodes}: Page measuring (for accessibility). \end{itemize} The following packages are required for specific features and loaded by default. However, the loading can be individually and generally omitted (see sec.~\ref{coptions}): \begin{itemize} @@ -481,6 +482,52 @@ Please refer to the comprehensive beamer manual \cite{beamer} for information. Please also refer to the template files included in the package for some further usage instructions and hints. + +\subsection{Accessibility helpers} + +For visually impaired users, setting up posters is quite a challenge, as \LaTeX\ does not really give you good feedback +on whether the poster is filled evenly, or even in the crucial case if the text overruns the poster page. +In the latter case, you could watch out for \emph{overfull vbox} warnings, but these are quite ambiguous. + +To enhance accessibility in this regard, \uvlt\ provides the following helper function: +\begin{description} + \item{\jcsmacro{restspace[<label>]}} +\end{description} +% +If you insert this to your poster, it will tell you through a package warning in the log file how many normal lines +there are still available (in the current column, if you are using columns) after the point where the command +has been inserted: +\begin{quote} + \enquote{Package univie-ling-poster warning: Remaining space: <n> normal lines} + (with <n> being the actual number of lines) +\end{quote} +% +With \emph{normal lines}, the warning refers to lines in the normal font size of running text. +In the warning, the package also provides you with its own evaluation on how to deal with the result. +Either of these four verdicts will be given: +\begin{enumerate} + \item \enquote{Good, still space left}: poster/column is not full yet, you can safely add more text + (more than one normal line left). + \item \enquote{All good, but this is full now}: poster/column is filled, and not too crowded, + but you should not add more text (one line more will make it look less good). + \item \enquote{It is still OK, but the poster is quite full}: The content already touches the footer line. + If you don't have space available in other columns and need all text, you can keep this, but it will + probably look a bit crowded. So if you can, re-arrange (take out at least one line). + \item \enquote{Text exceeds poster! You need to re-arrange the content}: + If you get this warning, text runs out of the poster page, and you definitely need to fix that. +\end{enumerate} +% +The optional argument of the macro allows you to set an arbitrary label which is used in the warning. +This might be helpful if you use multiple \verb|\restspace| macros (e.\,g., in multiple columns). +So if you insert, for instance \verb|\restspace[1]|, the warning will read +\enquote{Remaining space (1): <n> normal lines}. + +Note that \verb|\restspace| should always be the last element in the column or the text. This means that if +you are using boxes, set the macro \emph{after} the end of the box, not within the box. + +Note further that the \verb|\restspace| macro does not print anything on the poster itself, so you can safely keep +them in the published version. + \subsection{\LyX\ layouts and templates} A layout for \LyX\footnote{See \url{https://www.lyx.org}.}\ can be retrieved from \url{https://github.com/jspitz/univie-ling/raw/master/lyx/layouts/univie-ling-poster.layout}. @@ -498,6 +545,10 @@ Templates are provided as well: \section{Release History} \begin{description} + \item 2024/05/09 (v.\,2.5) + \begin{itemize} + \item Add \verb|\restspace| accessibility helper function. + \end{itemize} \item 2023/03/31 (v.\,2.4) \begin{itemize} \item No change to this class. |