GNU bug report logs - #14799
Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format

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Message #29 received at 14799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 14799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, angelo.g0 <at> libero.it
Subject: Re: bug#14799: Request for building PDF manuals in A4 format
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:41:36 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:22:53 +0200
> Cc: 14799 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > +@afourpaper
> > +@setchapternewpage odd
> >  @setfilename ../../info/emacs
> >  @settitle GNU Emacs Manual
> >
> 
> Thanks; that was a simple enough patch.  :-)
> 
> But I don't think it's something we can apply in general -- the
> officially printed Emacs manuals are on US paper sizes, and I don't
> think that's going to change.
> 
> I had a look at somehow making a new Makefile target for A4 pages, but
> it doesn't seem like texi2pdf takes paper size as a parameter either

Could you perhaps use the -t switch to texi2pdf?

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