On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 11:35:04AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2021 12:15:29 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote: > > 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 > > Without setting PERFBOOK_PAPER, > just "make perfbook-er.pdf" works fine. > > I mean, env PERFBOOK_PAPER=ER make perfbook-1c.pdf > will generate the same PDF as perfbook-er.pdf would (without > PERFBOOK_PAPER set). > > Which is mostly the same as perfbook-a4.pdf and perfbook-hb.pdf > work when PERFBOOK_PAPER=A4 or PERFBOOK_PAPER=HB is specified. > > > > >>> > >>> 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 see code snippets more than 53 lines are truncated in the -er build. > > > > >> 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 > > I've tested my scheme on top of your patch and applied the > scheme in cpu, toolsoftrade, cpu, and defer/rcuapi. > > Can you try the patch set I'm sending out soon as replies to this > message. > > I'm not saying the scheme works for every oversized float types, > though. > > > > >>> 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. > > I see. My scheme shirks tables as a whole, so some of them might > become hard to read. > Works OK for me so far, it does a tighter packing of tables and if we shrink the font size, I am sure we can make the tables fit :) Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> Balbir Singh.
