From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 14799@debbugs.gnu.org, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
Subject: bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:30:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ftkczlz5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfu48xk2.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:22:53 +0200")
>>>>> On Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:22:53 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> said:
Lars> Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it> writes:
>> @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
>> \input texinfo @c -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
>>
>> +@afourpaper
>> +@setchapternewpage odd
>> @setfilename ../../info/emacs
>> @settitle GNU Emacs Manual
>>
Lars> Thanks; that was a simple enough patch. :-)
Lars> But I don't think it's something we can apply in general -- the
Lars> officially printed Emacs manuals are on US paper sizes, and I don't
Lars> think that's going to change.
Lars> I had a look at somehow making a new Makefile target for A4 pages, but
Lars> it doesn't seem like texi2pdf takes paper size as a parameter either, so
Lars> all the texi files would need to have
Lars> @ifset A4
Lars> ...
Lars> @endif
Lars> or something, and then a Makefile target could set that variable. But
Lars> that seems like a lot of verbiage to add to the .texi files, so I don't
Lars> know...
Donʼt they all include emacs/docstyle.texi?
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-01 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-05 8:10 bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format Angelo Graziosi
2019-08-15 4:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-15 10:01 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-09-29 12:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-09-30 16:26 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2019-10-01 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 12:30 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2019-10-01 12:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-02 11:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-02 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-03 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-07 3:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-01 19:18 ` Angelo Graziosi via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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