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. > It does and it makes it easier on the eyes. My suggestion is to try the patch and then see for yourself, it'll help with the improvements you suggest below > Impressive, indeed! > Yep, the magic is done by LaTeX :) > 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? > I use it to set PERFBOOK_BASE > > > > 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. > The code snippets turned out just fine, the tables had overflows. Even the images are largely fine. > 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. > The code is fine so far, I think with the tables, we might need to find a way for allowing them to cross page boundaries, I have not looked at the table macros yet. My suggestion is for you to try the patch, see the rendered PDF output and look for artifacts like table 9.1 > > 2. Consider scaling the font > > You mean the font size of 10pt is too large for ebook readers? > I meant largely for tables, the font size on my kindle seems nice. > Thanks, Akira > Thanks, Balbir Singh.
