Re: Paper Sizes

[Christopher Dimech]

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.

Regards
Christopher


> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 8:29 AM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Paper Sizes
>
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:29:41AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Dear Gavin,
> >
> > I have been working on the paper sizes (B5, B6, B7, B8, C5, C6, C7,C8) so 
> > we can
> > include them.  Have set the Paper Sizes and the Text Area.
> >
> > Perhaps you can improve on the heading spacing (for a smaller one),
> > etc.  Let me know what you think.
> >
> > Regards
> > Christopher
>
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
> I am not sure that there is any need for support of the C series as
> this is mainly used for envelopes, I gather, not so much for paper
> itself.
>
> B6 seemed like a good idea as it looked the right size for a small
> paperback book.  B8 is tiny, though.  I still don't understand what
> you are doing with changing the page size.  I think that more paper
> sizes could be added if they were going to be used for printing on.
>
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