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Re: @smallbook and friends


From: Simon Law
Subject: Re: @smallbook and friends
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:40:02 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 12:51:54PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     >         OK.  How about this?  @smallbook redefines @foo to use the small
>     >   fonts, and @smallfoo to use smaller fonts.  That way, examples should
>     >   fit on the page no matter what.
> 
> It does have a certain logic. I guess my main concern is that @smallbook
> uses 10pt fonts generally (just like 8.5x11).  Is it really desirable to
> change *every* @example (not @smallexample) to use 9pt fonts?  Because
> that is what the above is saying.
>
> Changing @smallexample to 8pt fonts is not as troublesome to me.

        There is an implicit assumption here that people will format to
letter paper by default.  By your rendering, the text in an @foo can
only really fit in an @smallbook if they get shrunk to 9pt.  Otherwise,
things will start falling into the margin.

        For really wide text (80 characters), then @smallfoo is just the
right thing.  That's why those should be shrunk from 9pt to 8pt when
@smallbook is active.  I believe that we should then severely discourage
the use of @smallfoo environments unless absolutely necessary.

        If we have to, we can make @smallbook take an optional argument
that tells it to revert always keep @foo at 10pt and @smallfoo at 9pt.

Simon




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