From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:21:03 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87txufgkrk.fsf@gmail.com> References: <52c394ee-6e9b-4c9a-a555-689fe3dcf13c@googlegroups.com> <3a57508f-24a5-47c5-9a87-f89500367779@googlegroups.com> <874nmfmhnn.fsf@castleamber.com> <878vbr6ufp.fsf@castleamber.com> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349047517 10627 80.91.229.3 (30 Sep 2012 23:25:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:25:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 01 01:25:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TISsv-0000Os-I3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 01:25:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35695 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TISsq-0001SK-2q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: by 10.180.107.167 with SMTP id hd7mr1230339wib.0.1349047265693; Sun, 30 Sep 2012 16:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!l8no18778274qao.0!news-out.google.com!q11ni112632752wiw.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!217.73.144.44.MISMATCH!feeder.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder2.ecngs.de!78.46.240.70.MISMATCH!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 54 Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dc6b2bf4d7a1615b94f37457a0cec591"; logging-data="28753"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/eF7wnSqAECSmRuuseGKNQLCpCAUJuyXM=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jcde5zBD58v0RviEBWfizLsdMdU= sha1:MBTTmQqDdPX9ry4a8uOcj4H8i2c= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194679 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87015 Archived-At: John Bokma writes: > Bastien writes: > >> John Bokma writes: >> >>> The font can surely be a hurdle for people to read something no matter >>> how serious they want to read something. >> >> Did you try what I sent? Does it solve your problem? > > You wrote: He wrote the following, which should be tried: (The rest of this message is from a previous reply by Bastien) > Fonts too small make reading unpleasant > and from what I read, with texinfo you can > only change the font from 10pt to 11pt See attached patch against texinfo.tex on how to change the size. diff --git a/doc/texinfo.tex b/doc/texinfo.tex index 9631275..763319e 100644 --- a/doc/texinfo.tex +++ b/doc/texinfo.tex @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ % Load plain if necessary, i.e., if running under initex. \expandafter\ifx\csname fmtname\endcsname\relax\input plain\fi % -\def\texinfoversion{2012-01-03.18} +\def\texinfoversion{2012-09-21.12} % % Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, % 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, @@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ end \def\definetextfontsizexi{% % Text fonts (11.2pt, magstep1). \def\textnominalsize{11pt} -\edef\mainmagstep{\magstephalf} +\edef\mainmagstep{1400} \setfont\textrm\rmshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1} \setfont\texttt\ttshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1TT} \setfont\textbf\bfshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1} @@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ end \def\definetextfontsizex{% % Text fonts (10pt). \def\textnominalsize{10pt} -\edef\mainmagstep{1000} +\edef\mainmagstep{1400} \setfont\textrm\rmshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1} \setfont\texttt\ttshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1TT} \setfont\textbf\bfshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1}