From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 9 10:16:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from reliant.nielsenmedia.com (reliant.nielsenmedia.com [205.129.32.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6517E14BC2 for ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from David_W_Gray@tvratings.com) Received: from nmrusdunsxg0.nielsenmedia.com (nmrusdunsxg0.nielsenmedia.com [10.9.11.120]) by reliant.nielsenmedia.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21202; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:15:51 -0500 (EST) Received: by nmrusdunsxg0.nielsenmedia.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:10:39 -0500 Message-ID: <01D4D419B1A4D111A30400805FE65B13033660B2@nmrusdunsx1.nielsenmedia.com> From: "Gray, David W." To: "'Mark Ovens'" , "Gray, David W." Cc: "'freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Re: Student project ideas Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 13:10:38 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yeah. Still doesn't help the "fonts don't scale/too damn small" problem! :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Ovens [mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org] > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 1:13 PM > To: Gray, David W. > Cc: 'freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG' > Subject: Re: Re: Student project ideas > > > On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:07:13AM -0500, Gray, David W. wrote: > > Y'know, I'd like to see the output go to LaTeX. Why, you might > > well ask? In LaTeX, I can use a package called Vmargin to let me > > change the size & *shape* of a page. I like to print out pages > > 2up 2sided, which happens to neatly fit in the 'pc' sized binders > > you see all over the place. The typical way of doing this is to > > output postscript, and use postscript code to rotate, translate, and > > scale. This sucks. TeX fonts are *bitmaps* and don't scale. Also > > (more importantly to me), the aspect ratio (height to width) is > > notably different between an 8.5"x11" sheet (US letter) and the > > resulting 5.5"x8.5" half sheet. > > That's one advantage the ISO A-series has; the aspect ratio is > *always* 0.707 (root 2). The short edge of each size is the same > as the long edge of the next smallest size. > > -- > STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. > OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. > ________________________________________________________________ > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message