On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:39:50PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> 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?
What fraction of ebook readers allow zooming in to small figures?
Smartphones do, but I have no idea on Kindles and the like.
And thank you both -- this is something that people have been
requesting for a long time!
Thanx, Paul
> 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{
> >
