On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:07:35AM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> Here are some paper sizes taken from LaTeX and from dvips:
>
> Thanks, but in order to provide support for them, I need to know more
> than the actual paper size: namely, the height/width that the text area
> should be and the horizontal/vertical margins, at a minimum.
>
> I can't actually print on most of those sizes of paper (nor do I have
> the paper itself), so I don't have any way to determine what good values
> should be. Can you (or anyone on the list) help?
>
> I suppose I could guess at some numbers if you'd rather have something
> to start with ...
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
I have looked at how LaTeX basic classes finds its paper related dimensions.
Unless I have misunderstood the LaTeX code (I am not a TeX expert), there is
nothing special for each paper size. Basicaly LaTeX reserves a 1in for each
margin (horizontal and vertical). Then it checks the resulting horizontal
text width to see if it is not too long. If it finds the text width too
long, the horizontal margins are made larger. Then some other issues are
dealed with, like even/odd margins. This functionality is independent of
the specific paper sizes.
So I do not have any clues on values for the dimensions required for
adding support for those new paper sizes into texinfo.tex. Maybe
you could find some reasonable ones yourself for at least the a5 paper,
the one I think would be most useful.
I particularly will not be printing in sheets of a5 paper directly,
but rather print two a5 pages in one a4 paper sheet. That is because
I find the a4 paper too large. Another solution to me would be the
use of scalable fonts (the PostScript fonts patch for texinfo.tex
supplies that) at bigger sizes and normal a4 paper. I would generate
a PostScript file from texinfo file and then use programs like
psnup for printing 2 pages in one paper sheet.
Regards,
Romildo
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Prof. Jos� Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Departamento de Computa��o
Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto
Brasil
