Metis — Create Poster
create_posterGenerate a conference poster (.pptx) from structured sections, automatically filling the researcher’s chosen template and flagging text likely to overflow.
Instructions
Create a conference poster (.pptx) filled into the researcher's own template.
The poster template is stored in Metis (see list_templates) and used by
default — never ask the researcher for the file or where it is.
The template (.potx or .pptx) is looked up in system/config/local/templates/,
knowledge/templates/, or $METIS_TEMPLATES_DIR — or pass a path. Each layout's
section boxes are detected from its geometry, so any template with a title,
small section headers and large content boxes works.
Args:
title: Poster title.
sections: The poster body as plain text. Each section starts with a line
beginning "# " (its heading); following lines are its text. Lines
beginning "- " become points, "## " a block subtitle inside the box,
anything else plain prose. Sections fill the boxes down the first
column, then the next. Example:
# Background
- Why the question matters
# Methods
- Design, setting, data
# Results
- The main finding, with its number
authors: Authors line, shown under the title.
band: Optional text for the band below the title — affiliations, or a
one-sentence key message.
template: Template file name (or part of it) or a path. Empty = the first
template found; the result says which one was used.
layout: "auto" (smallest layout with enough boxes), or part of a layout
name such as "one column" / "two column".
filename: Optional output filename; derived from the title when omitted.
Returns:
The path written, the template and layout used, and any section whose text
is likely to overflow its box.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| band | No | ||
| title | Yes | ||
| layout | No | auto | |
| authors | No | ||
| filename | No | ||
| sections | Yes | ||
| template | No |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |