Where can I find a LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual?
LaTeX is more flexible than texinfo for customizations;
versions of the emacs-manual on the GNU web site
are not suitable for printing/reading
twiki <lap7...@yahoo.it> writes:
> Where can I find a LaTeX-version of the emacs-manual?
> LaTeX is more flexible than texinfo for customizations;
> versions of the emacs-manual on the GNU web site
> are not suitable for printing/reading
> THANX in ADVANCE!
If you're interested in customizing the manual, I'm not sure what to
tell you; but if you just want to print it, both PostScript and PDF
versions are at http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.html (and
DVI, for that matter).
Postscript and PDF versions are not editable.
I would like to a) change the font and margins b) exclude certain chapters c) add the topics ... and print ... so I would like a LaTeX source.
Versions docbook obtained from sources texinfo (makeinfo through) are difficult to be processed.
twiki <lap7...@yahoo.it> writes:
> Postscript and PDF versions are not editable.
> I would like to a) change the font and margins b) exclude certain
> chapters c) add the topics ... and print ... so I would like a LaTeX
> source.
> Versions docbook obtained from sources texinfo (makeinfo through) are
> difficult to be processed.
Have you tried texi2latex[1]? The texinfo site says that it's
unmaintained, but it might be worth a shot.
> I would like to a) change the font and margins b) exclude certain chapters c) add the topics ... and print ... so I would like a LaTeX source.
> Versions docbook obtained from sources texinfo (makeinfo through) are difficult to be processed.
your input file emacs.db is not utf-8 encoded. pandoc simply foregoes
the entire encoding mess and assumes everything is utf-8.
makeinfo doesn't seem to have a way of specifying the output encoding,
so the easiest way to go about this is probably to open emacs.db in
emacs and save it as utf-8 (C-x RET f).
HTH
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> So my question was "why do you think the emacs-manual manual > on the GNU website is not suitable for printing/ reading?"
Fonts too small make reading unpleasant
and from what I read, with texinfo you can only change the font from 10pt to 11pt
> Well, if you are serious about learning Emacs, you can't be > serious about the font of the printed manual being a problem.
The readability is important for me!
> Too bad your printer/system does not allow you to print only
> parts of a document! :)
I wish I could translate parts of the text and to add
considerations, tricks taken from the Internet and more ...
all this before you print!
> Anyway, good luck with the time sink,
I thought it was an easy thing to do ... as well as obvious!
You're right ... looks amazing having to lose so much time!
However, it seems to me reasonable to be able to modify the source
documentation of an open-source program using
a typesetting-language as powerful as LaTeX!
> So my question was "why do you think the emacs-manual manual > on the GNU website is not suitable for printing/ reading?"
Fonts too small make reading unpleasant
and from what I read, with texinfo you can only change the font from 10pt to 11pt
> Well, if you are serious about learning Emacs, you can't be > serious about the font of the printed manual being a problem.
The readability is important for me!
> Too bad your printer/system does not allow you to print only
> parts of a document! :)
I wish I could translate parts of the text and to add
considerations, tricks taken from the Internet and more ...
all this before you print!
> Anyway, good luck with the time sink,
I thought it was an easy thing to do ... as well as obvious!
You're right ... looks amazing having to lose so much time!
However, it seems to me reasonable to be able to modify the source
documentation of an open-source program using
a typesetting-language as powerful as LaTeX!
twiki <lap7...@yahoo.it> writes:
> Fonts too small make reading unpleasant
> and from what I read, with texinfo you can > only change the font from 10pt to 11pt
See attached patch against texinfo.tex on how
to change the size.
On Fri, Sep 21 2012, twiki wrote:
> Fonts too small make reading unpleasant
> and from what I read, with texinfo you can > only change the font from 10pt to 11pt
Isn't it possible to change the font with plaintex macros?
> I wish I could translate parts of the text and to add
> considerations, tricks taken from the Internet and more ...
> all this before you print!
I don't know texinfo, but I'm sure that you only need to learn about
10 macros for that... One hour learning and you're done.
(OT: Before switching from texinfo to LaTeX, consider switching to ConTeXt!)
but it did not work! I understand that it is too complicated
as a transformation of formats and so I wanted to see if
you can have a larger and more powerful format (of texinfo)
to work... and to send to print a
===customized version=== of the Emacs manual!
but it did not work! I understand that it is too complicated
as a transformation of formats and so I wanted to see if
you can have a larger and more powerful format (of texinfo)
to work... and to send to print a
===customized version=== of the Emacs manual!
I wish I could translate parts of the text and to add
considerations, tricks taken from the Internet and more ...
all this before you print!
Which parts?
Why not use two Emacs instances? One to play with, one to read from.
For either or both you can choose a suitably pleasant onscreen font.
It seems Emacs' current support for annotations (of info files) is poor
to middling: <http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AnnotationMode>, so if you
are a programmer, you might be able to get due piccioni con una fava :-D
by advancing the state of the art, learning Emacs Lisp as well in the
process.
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