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+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%% %%	Posterdown PDF class for LaTeX files	 08-JAN-2019
+%% %%	For any information please send an e-mail to:
+%% %%		brentthonre18@gmail.com (Brent Thorne)
+%% %%
+%% %%	Initial class provided by:
+%% %%		Brent Thorne
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
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+
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+\RequirePackage[normalem]{ulem}
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+
+%%%%%%%%% COLOURS %%%%%%%%
+
+%Fill/ Line Colours
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+\definecolor{columnlinecol}{HTML}{$columnline_col$}
+\definecolor{posterbgcol}{HTML}{$poster_bgcol$}
+\definecolor{posterbgcol}{HTML}{$poster_bgcol$}
+\definecolor{headerbgcol}{HTML}{$header_bgcol$}
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+\definecolor{affiliationtextcol}{HTML}{$affiliation_textcol$}
+\definecolor{headertextcol}{HTML}{$header_textcol$}
+\definecolor{bodytextcol}{HTML}{$body_textcol$}
+\definecolor{footnotetextcol}{HTML}{$footnote_textcol$}
+\definecolor{citecol}{HTML}{$cite_col$}
+\definecolor{urlcol}{HTML}{$url_col$}
+\definecolor{linkcol}{HTML}{$link_col$}
+
+\RequirePackage{hyperref}
+\hypersetup{
+    colorlinks=true,
+    linkcolor=linkcol,
+    citecolor=citecol,
+    filecolor=magenta,
+    urlcolor=urlcol,
+}
+
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+
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+\captionnamefont{\footnotesize\sffamily\bfseries}
+\captiontitlefont{\footnotesize\sffamily}
+
+%define column options
+\setlength{\columnseprule}{1pt}
+\def\columnseprulecolor{\color{columnlinecol}}
+
+\setsubsubsecheadstyle{\small\color{headertextcol}\textbf}% Set \section style
+\setsecheadstyle{\small\color{headertextcol}}
+\setsecnumformat{}
+\def\sectionmark#1{\markboth{#1}{#1}}
+
+%-----------------------------------------------------
+
+\thispagestyle{empty}
+\definecolor{light-gray}{gray}{0.9}
+
+%biblatex options
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+\AtBeginDocument{%
+  \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
+}
+
+%bring in the users information
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+\title{$title$}
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+\addtocounter{secnumdepth}{2}
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+\setsubsecheadstyle{\itshape}
+\setsubsubsecheadstyle{\itshape}
+}
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+
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+
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+\setlength\parskip{1em}
+\setlength\hangparas{0}
+
+%spacing after section head title
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+
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+\settypeblocksize{$poster_height$}{$poster_width$}{*}
+\setlrmargins{*}{*}{1}
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+\setmarginnotes{0em}{0cm}{0cm}
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+  linecolor=columnlinecol,
+  topline=false,
+  leftline=false,
+  rightline=false,
+  linewidth=2mm}
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+%Footnote to white
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+
+% see https://stackoverflow.com/a/47122900
+$if(highlighting-macros)$
+$highlighting-macros$
+$endif$
+
+% choose font family
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+\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault}
+\newpagecolor{posterbgcol}
+
+%begin the document
+\begin{document}
+
+\begin{mdframed}[style=brentsmdfstyle]
+
+%sets footnote to be white hopefully
+\renewcommand\footnoterule{}
+\renewcommand{\thempfootnote}{\footnotesize\color{footnotetextcol}{\arabic{mpfootnote}}}
+
+% group which adds title author and other infor
+% Used instead of \maketitle for better spacing options
+\begingroup
+  \centering
+  \color{titletextcol}
+\vspace{0.5in}
+  \Huge{$title$} \\[0.3in]
+  \color{authortextcol} \Large{$author$} \\[0.2in]
+  \color{affiliationtextcol} \large{$affiliation$} \par
+  \vspace{0.2in}
+
+% end title section -------------------
+  \endgroup
+\end{mdframed}
+
+% Brgin body of poster
+\begin{adjmulticols*}{$column_numbers$}{10mm}{10mm}
+\normalsize{
+\color{bodytextcol}
+$body$
+\printbibliography
+}
+\end{adjmulticols*}
+%end the poster
+\end{document}
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 #----COLOURS----#
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-poster_bgcol: "white" #colour of the poster main background
-title_textcol: "red" #colour of title text
-header_textcol: "red" #colour of the poster header titles
-cite_col: "green" #colour of ciation elements
-url_col: "cyan" #colour of url links
-link_col: "cyan" #colour of other links within the poster
-columnline_col: "blue" #colour 
 
-#----POSTER SIZE & COLUMN NUMBERS----#
+#Background/ Line Colours
+title_bgcol: "0b4545"  #Hex colour for background of poster title section (default is blue)
+poster_bgcol: "ffffff" #colour of the poster main background
+cite_col: "CC0000" #colour of ciation elements
+url_col: "008080" #colour of url links
+link_col: "008080" #colour of other links within the poster
+columnline_col: "0b4545" #colour 
+header_bgcol: "008080"
+
+#Text Colours
+title_textcol: "ffffff" #colour of title text
+author_textcol: "008080" # Colour of author text
+affiliation_textcol: "FFFFFF" # Colour of affiliation text
+body_textcol: "000000" # Colour of main text in the body of poster
+header_textcol: "CC0000" # Colour of the poster header titles
+footnote_textcol: "FFFFFF" # Colour of footnote text if used
+
+#----POSTER SIZE & COLUMN FORMATTING----#
 poster_height: "38in" # height in inches of poster
 poster_width: "45in" # width in inches of poster
 column_numbers: 3 # Number of columns that the poster has
+column_margins: "10mm" # Margin spacing for columns
 
 #----OTHER----#
 bibliography: MyLibrary # name of the .bib file used for referencing
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