From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-Xtra Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17469.29694.605871.59144@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <17469.53282.265431.557135@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <4nd5flnwtg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nek002s4h.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145122441 12370 80.91.229.2 (15 Apr 2006 17:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 17:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 15 19:34:00 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUoek-0008DV-4G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 19:33:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUoej-00040B-7D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUodI-0002k8-RX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FUodH-0002iB-8i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FUodG-0002hz-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FUodW-00040M-5g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FUodG-0001nm-4P; Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:32:26 -0400 Original-To: Ted Zlatanov In-reply-to: <4nodz4ywgg.fsf@asimov.bwh.harvard.edu> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:05:03 -0400) 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: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52897 Archived-At: - decrease the font size in the published manuals. ORA books and many others use a noticeably smaller font, and are quite readable. We will take a look at that. - edit the manual to shorten it, without losing content. The latter is not too hard. There are many sentences that could be shortened or reworded without loss, after a cursory look through the manual. I doubt that we would save more than a few pages this way in the manual overall. But it might be an improvement anyway. So would you like to look at a source file and propose such changes?