Hello,

Yes I fully agree that there is room to improve it.

For fitting to the paper dimension, the simplest would be to have the LaTeX code derive box sizes (\cellwidth...) from \textheight & \textwidth, and derive in turn \textheight & \textwidth from \paperheight & \paperwidth and the wanted margin. All of this can be done in the LaTeX code.

Another area of improvement would be to replace \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} by the adquate encoding when holidays are used, or week days name are not English.


  Vincent.

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De : Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
Envoyé : mardi 22 août 2017 09:04
À : Vincent Belaïche
Cc : emacs-devel
Objet : Re: cal-tex.el landscape patch


On 2017-08-21, at 16:19, Vincent Belaïche <vincent.b.1@hotmail.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Not being the maintainer of calendar, I would like to get your
> approval/brickbats/comments before commiting this : the objective is to
> make landscape by landscape class option + \usepackage{geometry}, rather
> than \special{landscape} in the preamble.
>
> The advantage of this way is that this it works directly if you compile
> with pdflatex, rather than latex+dvips+ps2pdf.  To achieve this I had to
> change some of the function prototypes, the landscape argument is
> removed, and landscape option is passed just as another class option.

+1

And my 2 cents:

Not being the maintainer either, but sometimes a user, I'm for it.
However, I feel that cal-tex requires a general overhaul.  The LaTeX
file it produces doesn't look really great (neither the source nor the
output).  And it doesn't fit on A4.

I could try to do that overhaul.  For starters, enable A4 calendars;
also, why not use TikZ to draw the boxes (at least as an option)?  WDYT?

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski