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Re: LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 18:21:03 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux)

John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> writes:
>>
>>> The font can surely be a hurdle for people to read something no matter
>>> how serious they want to read something.
>>
>> Did you try what I sent?  Does it solve your problem?
>
> You wrote:

He wrote the following, which should be tried:
(The rest of this message is from a previous reply by Bastien)

> Fonts too small make reading unpleasant
> and from what I read, with texinfo you can 
> only change the font from 10pt to 11pt

See attached patch against texinfo.tex on how
to change the size.

diff --git a/doc/texinfo.tex b/doc/texinfo.tex
index 9631275..763319e 100644
--- a/doc/texinfo.tex
+++ b/doc/texinfo.tex
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 % Load plain if necessary, i.e., if running under initex.
 \expandafter\ifx\csname fmtname\endcsname\relax\input plain\fi
 %
-\def\texinfoversion{2012-01-03.18}
+\def\texinfoversion{2012-09-21.12}
 %
 % Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995,
 % 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
@@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@ end
 \def\definetextfontsizexi{%
 % Text fonts (11.2pt, magstep1).
 \def\textnominalsize{11pt}
-\edef\mainmagstep{\magstephalf}
+\edef\mainmagstep{1400}
 \setfont\textrm\rmshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1}
 \setfont\texttt\ttshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1TT}
 \setfont\textbf\bfshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1}
@@ -2098,7 +2098,7 @@ end
 \def\definetextfontsizex{%
 % Text fonts (10pt).
 \def\textnominalsize{10pt}
-\edef\mainmagstep{1000}
+\edef\mainmagstep{1400}
 \setfont\textrm\rmshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1}
 \setfont\texttt\ttshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1TT}
 \setfont\textbf\bfshape{10}{\mainmagstep}{OT1}


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