Dear Gavin, I've checked it out on (1) my Elisp Abbreviated Manual and (2) on one of my technical manuals with mathematical expressions, equation numbers and so on.
I approve of the results. Looks neat and margins relative to pagesize look fantastic. Very good. Thank you so very much Christopher --------------------- Christopher Dimech Chief Administrator - Naiad Informatics - GNU Project (Geocomputation) - Geophysical Simulation - Geological Subsurface Mapping - Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation - Natural Resource Exploration and Production - Free Software Advocacy > Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 9:51 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Page Sizes B6 and C6 > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > Dear Compeers, > > > > Because arbitrary page sizes do not function in texinfo, and because > > I would find small size pages like B6 and C6 extremely useful, could > > there be @bsixpaper and @csixpaper? > > > > Regards > > Christopher > > Yes, maybe. This would be much more possible than supporting > arbitrary paper sizes. I've tested the following definition of > @bsixpaper: > > \def\bsixpaper{{\globaldefs = 1 > \afourpaper > \internalpagesizes{140mm}{100mm}% > {-6.35mm}{-12.7mm}% > {\bindingoffset}{14pt}% > {176mm}{125mm}% > \globaldefs = 0 > }} > > and it seems to produce OK results, at least for some pages without > hard-to-break lines. Could you give this a go and report if any of > the parameters should be changed? You could use it by inserting > > @tex > \gdef\bsixpaper{{\globaldefs = 1 > \afourpaper > \internalpagesizes{140mm}{100mm}% > {-6.35mm}{-12.7mm}% > {\bindingoffset}{14pt}% > {176mm}{125mm}% > \globaldefs = 0 > }} > @end tex > @bsixpaper > > near the start of your input file. > >
