Hi Balbir,
I am surprised to see perfbook's LaTeX codebase works fairly well
in the ebook paper size.
Impressive, indeed!
A few inline comments:
On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:38:22 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:23:54PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 12:01:53PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:
> ...
>> Very good!
>>
>> But would it be possible to create a separate build target for this
>> combination? Just in case others are using 1c for normal-sized paper?
>>
>
> Add support for ebooksize, which is roughly the size of
> a kindle (4.5in, 6.3in) with margin size of 0.2in. The
> recommended changes were taken from stackexchange with
> links in the code. Not all tables take nicely to the
> new size and warnings are produced, these warnings are about
> about overfull hbox's. This size/target also enforces
> single column output and increases the size of the pdf
> by almost 40% in terms of number of pages. The actual size
> on the disk is not all that different. The final output
> though is very readable on the kindle I own.
>
> I've been running the command via
>
> env PERFBOOK_PAPER=ER make perfbook-er.pdf
Do you still need to set PERFBOOK_PAPER?
>
> TODOs:
> 1. Make tables and some figures work nicely in this mode
Shrinking tables and figures is not so hard, but to shrink tall
code snippets might be tricky.
I have some ideas to do them. Can you wait a couple of days?
I'll post some PoC scheme for you to base your further tuning.
Just shrinking tables and code snippets might result in
illegibly small font, though.
> 2. Consider scaling the font
You mean the font size of 10pt is too large for ebook readers?
Thanks, Akira
>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Makefile | 10 +++++++++-
> perfbook-lt.tex | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index db20da96..37ee76aa 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ LATEXGENERATED = autodate.tex qqz.tex contrib.tex origpub.tex sub_qqz
> # parallel runs of divideqqz.pl.
>
> TWOCOLTARGETS := mstx msr msn msnt sf qq nq ix
> -ABBREVTARGETS := lt hb a4 1c tcb msns mss $(TWOCOLTARGETS) $(foreach v,$(TWOCOLTARGETS),1c$(v))
> +ABBREVTARGETS := lt hb a4 1c tcb msns mss er $(TWOCOLTARGETS) $(foreach v,$(TWOCOLTARGETS),1c$(v))
>
> PDFTARGETS := perfbook.pdf $(foreach v,$(ABBREVTARGETS),perfbook-$(v).pdf)
> GENERATED_MAIN := $(filter-out perfbook-lt.tex,$(foreach v,$(ABBREVTARGETS),perfbook-$(v).tex)) perfbook.tex
> @@ -178,10 +178,14 @@ ifeq ($(PERFBOOK_PAPER),A4)
> else
> ifeq ($(PERFBOOK_PAPER),HB)
> PERFBOOK_BASE = perfbook-hb.tex
> +else
> +ifeq ($(PERFBOOK_PAPER),ER)
> + PERFBOOK_BASE = perfbook-er.tex
> else
> PERFBOOK_BASE = perfbook-lt.tex
> endif
> endif
> +endif
>
> .PHONY: all touchsvg clean distclean neatfreak 2c ls-unused $(ABBREVTARGETS) mslm perfbook-mslm.pdf mslmmsg help help-official help-full
> all: $(targ)
> @@ -283,6 +287,10 @@ perfbook-1c.tex: $(PERFBOOK_BASE)
> perfbook-hb.tex: perfbook-lt.tex
> sed -e 's/setboolean{hardcover}{false}/setboolean{hardcover}{true}/' < $< > $@
>
> +perfbook-er.tex: perfbook-lt.tex
> + sed -e 's/setboolean{ebooksize}{false}/setboolean{ebooksize}{true}/' < $< > $@
> + sed -i 's/setboolean{twocolumn}{true}/setboolean{twocolumn}{false}/' $@
> +
> perfbook-msns.tex: $(PERFBOOK_BASE)
> sed -e 's/%msfontstub/\\usepackage{courier}/' < $< > $@
>
> diff --git a/perfbook-lt.tex b/perfbook-lt.tex
> index e76d4d7b..a884011a 100644
> --- a/perfbook-lt.tex
> +++ b/perfbook-lt.tex
> @@ -116,6 +116,9 @@
> \newboolean{hardcover}
> \setboolean{hardcover}{false}
> \newcommand{\IfHardCover}[2]{\ifthenelse{\boolean{hardcover}}{#1}{#2}}
> +\newboolean{ebooksize}
> +\setboolean{ebooksize}{false}
> +\newcommand{\IfEbookSize}[2]{\ifthenelse{\boolean{ebooksize}}{#1}{#2}}
> \newboolean{afourpaper}
> \setboolean{afourpaper}{false}
> \newcommand{\IfAfourPaper}[2]{\ifthenelse{\boolean{afourpaper}}{#1}{#2}}
> @@ -320,6 +323,14 @@
> \usepackage[letterpaper,body={6.5in,8.25in},twocolumn,columnsep=0.25in]{geometry}
> }}}{ % One Column
> \setlength{\twocolumnwidth}{3.125in}
> + \IfEbookSize {
> + % From https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/16735/latex-options-for-kindle
> + \usepackage[papersize={4.5in,6.3in},margin=0.2in,onecolumn]{geometry}
> + \sloppy
> + %\pagestyle{empty}
> + %\usepackage[scaled]{helvet}
> + %\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
> + }{
> \IfHardCover{
> \usepackage[papersize={8.25in,10.75in},body={4.75in,8.25in},onecolumn]{geometry}
> }{
> @@ -327,7 +338,7 @@
> \usepackage[a4paper,body={4.75in,8.25in},onecolumn]{geometry}
> }{
> \usepackage[letterpaper,body={4.75in,8.25in},onecolumn]{geometry}
> - }}
> + }}}
> \geometry{hcentering=true} % horizontal centering for 1c layouts
> }
> \IfAfourPaper{
>
