From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Sep 19 15: 9:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5611737B401 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (blackend.org [212.11.50.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F57543E6A for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 15:09:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from marduk.blackend.org (marduk.blackend.org [192.168.1.202]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8JM4QUx072906; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:04:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from marduk.blackend.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by marduk.blackend.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8JM6dBZ003012; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:06:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@localhost.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by marduk.blackend.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8JM6YBw003011; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:06:34 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 00:06:34 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Mark Valentine Cc: Daniel Tourde , freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: We, poor Eurpoeans.... Message-ID: <20020919220634.GK457@marduk.blackend.org> References: <200209192043.g8JKhrLE017573@dotar.thuvia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209192043.g8JKhrLE017573@dotar.thuvia.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:43:53PM +0100, Mark Valentine wrote: > > It might be worth considering generating the standard documentation in > US Letter size with the extra 0.2" right margin suggested by RFC 2346 > ("Making Postscript and PDF International"), if the toolchain supports > it, so avoiding possible truncation of text on the right of the page > when printed on A4 paper. > We should check current margins size, but they seem wider than the difference of size between Letter and A4, a truncation should not appear. However it's possible to specify a default papersize in the various Makefiles, it would be an easy way to avoid truncation issues. That solution will only "fix" localized versions. > RFC 2346 also suggests a reduced page length and increased top margin > space when processing for A4 paper, to minimise problems printing on > US Letter paper. (I used to use this as the default when I produced > product documentation using troff, but the documentation build could > be configured for any of A4/LETTER/RFC2346. I presume it's also > possible to tweak the jade back ends in a similar way.) > I think we can do that in dssl files, with for example: (define %left-margin% 25mm) (define %right-margin% 25mm) (define %top-margin% 20mm) (define %bottom-margin% 20mm) etc. (25mm and 20mm are examples :) ) But I should let Murray, who worked on the printed version of the Handbook, answer to these printing format problems. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message