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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





  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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