I am wondering if there is a Tex command to specify a different
textwidth only for the @contents pages?
Do you know TeX at all? It would be a lot faster for you to look at
texinfo.tex than to wait around for me. Believe it or not, I have
expended considerable effort on making the macros as readable as
possible :).
Anyway, in this case, there is already a parameter for this, namely
\contentsrightmargin, which decreases the line length. See the
definition of \startcontents. The default is 1in, thus,
@tex
\global\contentsrightmargin = 3in
@end tex
@contents
Will this override the textwidth given in internalpagesizes for @contents?
As long as it's set after the internalpagesizes, it should. I'd put it
right before the @contents. Since nothing else uses it, there is no
need to reset it.
I haven't played with this in years, but that's what I see looking at
the code. Let me know if problems.
best,
karl
