name-tag-guru

LaTeX template to quickly create beautiful name tags (badges) for collaboration meetings

Preview

You can preview how your badge would look like on this page.

Usage

Use your favorite spreadsheet app (e.g., Excel) to create a list of string of
```
\participant{Large-font Badge Name}{Small-font Badge Name}{Affiliation}{Pronouns}{\command}
```
and copy and paste to the LaTeX template latex/main.tex.

Usually the spreadsheet formula would look like this:
```
= "\participant{" & B1 & "}{" & B2 & "}{" & B3 & "}{" & B4 & "}{\" & B5 & "}"
```
with B1 to B5 being the cells that specify the large- and small-font badge names, affiliation, pronouns, and highlighting command.
Use \emptyticket{} to add empty name tags with the background.
You can define your own highlight commands, such as:
```
\newcommand*{\loc}{\highlight{orange}}
```
To include CJK character, uncomment the following two lines. One also needs to compile with xelatex. A CJK font is also required (current set to Noto Sans CJK TC).
```
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setCJKmainfont{Noto Sans CJK TC}
```
To print two-sided name tags, uncomment these two lines:
```
\hoffset=1.1in
\backside
```
Dimensions in the current template is designed to fit Avery Name Badges #74459. But you can easily change the dimension setting to fit you name tags.

There relevant quantities are:
- \hoffset, \voffset: setting page margins;
- \ticketSize, \ticketDistance: setting the size of badges and the padding in between (current set in units of 0.01in);
- \ticketNumbers: setting the number of badges per page;
- the numbers in parentheses after \put: setting the location of each element.
When ready to print, remember to remove the boxed option in
```
\usepackage[boxed]{ticket}
```
Leave the boxed option on to see how the badges would look like.

Automated badge generation from registration database

We provide a script that can automagically query the registration database from the meetings-registration-form repository to generate a participants.tex file. To install the sqlalchemy requirement:

$ pip install sqlalchemy

Then copy the secret heroku database URL from the settings tab of the Heroku service into a db_secret file at the root of this repo. Be careful not to commit or share this file! Finally, run the following command at the root of this repo:

$ python badges_from_db.py

And that's it, you now have a participants.tex file in the latex folder, ready to be processed.

Contributers

This template is designed and implemented by Yao-Yuan Mao, with helpful suggestions contributed by Alex Kim, Rachel Mandelbaum, Phil Marshall, Anže Slosar, and Michael Wood-Vasey.

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name-tag-guru

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Usage

Automated badge generation from registration database

Contributers