From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: twiki Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <52c394ee-6e9b-4c9a-a555-689fe3dcf13c@googlegroups.com> <3a57508f-24a5-47c5-9a87-f89500367779@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348223532 23573 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2012 10:32:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 21 12:32:16 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 1TF0Wn-0000qN-4v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48781 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF0Wf-00088y-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF0WV-00088s-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:31:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF0WR-0001jS-8W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:31:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yx0-f189.google.com ([209.85.213.189]:56566) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TF0WR-0001jO-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 06:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: by yenq10 with SMTP id q10so6951323yen.6 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.66.235 with SMTP id i11mr782487vdt.7.1348223506359; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:31:46 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=31.199.112.21; posting-account=wjp2oAoAAACzI4pv18VQXMxteESeFgB_ Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 31.199.112.21 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-IP: 31.199.112.21 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.213.189 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:86869 Archived-At: > So my question was "why do you think the emacs-manual manual > on the GNU website is not suitable for printing/ reading?" Fonts too small make reading unpleasant and from what I read, with texinfo you can only change the font from 10pt to 11pt > Well, if you are serious about learning Emacs, you can't be > serious about the font of the printed manual being a problem. > The readability is important for me! > > Too bad your printer/system does not allow you to print only > parts of a document! :) > I wish I could translate parts of the text and to add considerations, tricks taken from the Internet and more ... all this before you print! > > Anyway, good luck with the time sink, > I thought it was an easy thing to do ... as well as obvious! You're right ... looks amazing having to lose so much time! However, it seems to me reasonable to be able to modify the source documentation of an open-source program using a typesetting-language as powerful as LaTeX!