> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 7:52 PM > From: "Gavin Smith" <[email protected]> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <[email protected]> > Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Paper Sizes > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 12:45:18PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > The sizes are useful to display short notes, mathematical expressions, > > and Code Snippets, that look large on screen (i.e. font size > > against paper size). This will alleviate the time spent writing > > notes for display to an audience or for video communication > > purposes. Having things redone so they get displayed with Libre > > Office or whatever is a waste of time for many people who > > customarily write their documentation and notes in Texinfo. We > > can just insert named macros wihout having to read and decipher > > what the mathematical expressions are about. When working with > > many mathematical expressions it is easy to be overwhelmed by the > > many symbols of tex. > > > > The display has many similarities to how Edward Witten and Cedric > > Villani use computers for mathematical display in meetings. > > Working with Texinfo to do my work, using Texinfo to also write > > short notes would be very useful because many would not need to > > do additional work. > > So like a slide presentation? (I'm not familar with how the two > individuals you have named use computers.)
Correct. Witten is quite unconventional, but we can make that way as standard. > The problem is that screens could be any size and shape, and any > distance from the viewer. We can't add an infinite number of paper > format commands to accomodate all the possibilities. If you used HTML > instead your content could easily be displayed in any format you like, > big font, small font, wide screen, etcetera. > > I know math support was an issue, but there's now support of MathJax > in the development version of texi2any. I fully agree that the problem is the screen size and shape puts demands for big font, small font, wide screen. Let's keep for now @bfivepaper and @bsixpaper and I can test the html version. But will require some direction on how to do it. Can you give me an abbreviated summary of commands if you please.
