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Is it possible to change the width of individual columns in baposter? By default, all columns are of the same width, and I can't seem to find how to change that. Thank you.

Rico
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  • Welcome to TeX.SX! Please help us to help you and add a minimal working example (MWE) that illustrates your problem. It will be much easier for us to reproduce your situation and find out what the issue is when we see compilable code, starting with \documentclass{...} and ending with \end{document}. – T. Verron Dec 04 '14 at 17:43
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    After doing more reading, I think the only option is to increase the total number of columns, and let the column I want to be wider than others span multiple columns. This can be done using the posterbox span option. – beygel Dec 04 '14 at 18:00
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    The fact that the columns are of equal width is commonly the case when dealing with TeX's paragraph setting over page (or column) breaks. The entire paragraph is set to a specific width, and it's just easier if everything is the same width. Otherwise you'll have to fiddle around with \parshape. – Werner Dec 04 '14 at 20:13

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You can change that using the argument span: span=2 for example means that your box will have twice the width of an elementary column :

\headerbox{Name of my box}{name=nickname,span=2,column=1,row=0}{
content of my box
}

or

\headerbox{Name of my box}{name=nickname,span=3,column=1,below=nickname_box_just_above}{
content
}
Rico
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    Quick question: is it possible to make a poster column occupy column halves? I tried to use span=1.5, but it doesn't compile... – RobertP. Oct 06 '17 at 15:41
  • Ever found a work around fractional span? e.g. span = 1.5 – Francesca Basini Apr 17 '22 at 13:39
  • @FrancescaBasini You can add columns=4 in the \begin{poster} environment. Then you can set the span to be 2 to have equal width boxes. – JACKY88 Jan 25 '23 at 11:56
  • @RobertP. @FrancescaBasini Why not double the total number of columns, so you have to double all the spans as well? E.g. span=1.5 with columns=2 becomes span=3 with columns=4. – Karlo Oct 13 '23 at 15:31