On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 06:58:40PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote:
> hi all,
>
> this may well not be the proper forum to ask this question, but i dont really
> know where else to go.
>
> on my old system (SuSE 7.1), shrink factor 5 would fit the width of the page
> exactly on the screen. now, on a new system, (slackware 8.0), but with the
> same teTeX and xdvi, shrink factor 5 fits the entire page on the screen,
> which means that the text is illegible.
>
> i of course use a different shrink factor now, but none of them fits the page
> width on the screen. so the page is either a bit too small to read
> comfortably, or part of the text falls out of the window, i.e. it cannot be
> read.
>
> is there a way to adjust the shrink factor behaviour? `man xdvi' did not give
> me any hints.
Hmm, from 'man xdvi',
-s shrink
(.shrinkFactor) Defines the initial shrink factor.
The default value is 8. If shrink is given as 0,
then the initial shrink factor is computed so that
the page fits within the window (as if the `s'
keystroke were given without a number).
s Changes the shrink factor to the given number. If
no number is given, the smallest factor that makes
the entire page fit in the window will be used.
(Margins are ignored in this computation.)
And, from /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi,
XDvi*shrinkFactor: 5
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