Re: Page Sizes B6 and C6

[Christopher Dimech]

Dear Gavin,

I've checked it out on (1) my Elisp Abbreviated Manual and (2) on one of
my technical manuals with mathematical expressions, equation numbers and
so on.

I approve of the results.  Looks neat and margins relative to pagesize
look fantastic.  Very good.

Thank you so very much
Christopher

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Christopher Dimech
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> Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 9:51 PM
> From: "Gavin Smith" <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: "help-texinfo gnu" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Page Sizes B6 and C6
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:31:52PM +0200, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > Dear Compeers,
> >
> > Because arbitrary page sizes do not function in texinfo, and because
> > I would find small size pages like B6 and C6 extremely useful, could
> > there be @bsixpaper and @csixpaper?
> >
> > Regards
> > Christopher
>
> Yes, maybe.  This would be much more possible than supporting
> arbitrary paper sizes.  I've tested the following definition of
> @bsixpaper:
>
> \def\bsixpaper{{\globaldefs = 1
>   \afourpaper
>   \internalpagesizes{140mm}{100mm}%
>                     {-6.35mm}{-12.7mm}%
>                     {\bindingoffset}{14pt}%
>                     {176mm}{125mm}%
>   \globaldefs = 0
> }}
>
> and it seems to produce OK results, at least for some pages without
> hard-to-break lines.  Could you give this a go and report if any of
> the parameters should be changed?  You could use it by inserting
>
> @tex
> \gdef\bsixpaper{{\globaldefs = 1
>   \afourpaper
>   \internalpagesizes{140mm}{100mm}%
>                     {-6.35mm}{-12.7mm}%
>                     {\bindingoffset}{14pt}%
>                     {176mm}{125mm}%
>   \globaldefs = 0
> }}
> @end tex
> @bsixpaper
>
> near the start of your input file.
>
>