From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Eglen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs reference card for A4 paper Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16754.38484.901285.540240@notch.amtp.cam.ac.uk> References: <16752.4198.237626.88552@notch.amtp.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1098028897 8098 80.91.229.6 (17 Oct 2004 16:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: roland.winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de, Stephen Eglen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 17 18:01:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CJDTK-0004wt-00 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:01:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJDaZ-0005rG-MU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:08:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJDX5-0002i0-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:05:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CJDX4-0002h6-3t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CJDX3-0002gR-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.111.8.132] (helo=ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CJDPH-0002No-OX; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:57:15 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.damtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.18.84]:63160 helo=medulla.damtp.cam.ac.uk) by ppsw-2.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.132]:25) with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CJDPB-0004Qs-LB (return-path ); Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from notch.amtp.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.16.112] ident=[UVaXOwFVWJj1spwt09N25LI8HGqIpqUH]) by medulla.damtp.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.32) id 1CJDPB-0004lk-28; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:57:09 +0100 Original-Received: from sje30 by notch.amtp.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 4.12) id 1CJDPA-0007xU-00; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:57:08 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.50.7 X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28512 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28512 Richard Stallman writes: > Installing this however will break usage for letter paper users. Has > anyone got a portable method that will work well for both A4 and > letter paper sizes? > > Maybe it would work to put in conditionals. If you can find a way > to test the paper size. Just to follow up, I've updated refcard.tex to include a new counter: % Set letterpapaer to 0 for A4 paper, 1 for letter (US) paper. Useful % only when columnsperpage is 2 or 3. \letterpaper=1 When letterpaper is 0, the two tex parameters that Roland identified are now changed to better suit A4 paper. Can someone check that this does the right thing on US paper still -- it looks fine on A4. Also, currently refcard.ps is distributed as a 6 page (1 column per page) document. I suggest that refcard.ps be updated to be a 2 page (3 column per page) document, as some people might prefer. (Perhaps still formatted for letter paper). Thanks, Stephen