On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Karl Berry wrote: > > It may be necessary to use `true' units, > > Indeed (which does not seem easy, offhand) ...
What's the difficulty? After I wrote, I remembered that I used to do this when I was testing something with various degrees of magnification. > > Matthias, I'm not sure why it had such a drastic effect on the layout, > unless it's all related to the different \hsize, which doesn't entirely > make sense to me. Anyway, it seems the answer is, "no easy way to get > bigger fonts". Sorry. I think it should work, too. This will probably be too late to help Matthias, but when I get a chance, I'll try to get it to work for me. > > P.S. The non-easy way is to change this code in texinfo.tex. E.g., > change and 11pt to 12pt (doesn't really matter), and \magstephalf to > \magstep1. There are better methods, but none I can give a recipe for > off the top of my head. I think this a better solution. Any method will ultimately just change the fonts accessed by the `\font' assignments (or commands, or whatever they are), so I don't see anything wrong with the method you describe. Of course, like everything else, it could be refined. I think it would be worth implementing a way of increasing the font sizes for the sake of accessibility for the visually impaired. A related issue is the size of graphics in the HTML output: While the text is scalable in a browser, PNG graphics aren't. When I work on my manual again, I'll try to figure something out. Obviously, I can't make the PNGs scalable, but it should be possible to generate them in different sizes and load the correct size based on the value of conditionals in the Texinfo files. Laurence _______________________________________________ Texinfo home page: http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-texinfo
