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Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card

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From: Tristan Miller <miller <at> ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
To: <bug-auctex <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:31:01 +0100

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Dear all,

Is there any chance the AUCTeX Reference Card could be reformatted so
that it is suitable for folding?  The three columns suggest that the
card is meant to be printed in duplex and folded accordion-style, but
this turns out not to work because both sides of the page have a wide
right margin.  If all three columns were the same width (as I suspect
they already are), and uniformly distributed across the page, then the
accordion fold would work nicely.

Regards,
Tristan

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From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Tristan Miller <miller <at> ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: 26085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26085: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:07:02 +0100

Hi Tristan,

2017-03-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Tristan Miller
<miller <at> ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>:
> Dear all,
>
> Is there any chance the AUCTeX Reference Card could be reformatted so
> that it is suitable for folding?  The three columns suggest that the
> card is meant to be printed in duplex and folded accordion-style, but
> this turns out not to work because both sides of the page have a wide
> right margin.  If all three columns were the same width (as I suspect
> they already are), and uniformly distributed across the page, then the
> accordion fold would work nicely.

I suspect that the refcard is tailored to letter paper size.  It has
almost the same code as the Emacs refcard, which looks fine on that
paper format[1], but if compiled for A4 is as unbalanced as the AUCTeX
refcard.

I don't think I have the ability to fix this, for sure in this period
I don't have the time to look deeper, but patches to make the refcard
work on A4 paper are welcome.

Bye,
Mosè


Note:
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf

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From: Tristan Miller <psychonaut <at> nothingisreal.com>
To: bug-auctex <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26085: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:45:53 +0100

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Greetings.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:07:02 +0100, Mosè Giordano
<mose <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> I suspect that the refcard is tailored to letter paper size.  It has
> almost the same code as the Emacs refcard, which looks fine on that
> paper format[1], but if compiled for A4 is as unbalanced as the AUCTeX
> refcard.

I had assumed that A4 was targeted, because the tex-ref.pdf file
in the AUCTeX source distribution is set on A4 paper.  I suppose if I
can figure out how to compile tex-ref.tex for US letter paper, I could
print it on A4 paper using my printer's "scale to fit" option.  Then it
would be foldable, at the expense of the text being slightly compressed
or stretched.

Regards,
Tristan

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Message #14 received at 26085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Mosè Giordano <mose <at> gnu.org>
To: Tristan Miller <psychonaut <at> nothingisreal.com>
Cc: 26085 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26085: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 20:33:06 +0100

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2017-03-13 19:45 GMT+01:00 Tristan Miller <psychonaut <at> nothingisreal.com>:
> Greetings.
>
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:07:02 +0100, Mosè Giordano
> <mose <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> I suspect that the refcard is tailored to letter paper size.  It has
>> almost the same code as the Emacs refcard, which looks fine on that
>> paper format[1], but if compiled for A4 is as unbalanced as the AUCTeX
>> refcard.
>
> I had assumed that A4 was targeted, because the tex-ref.pdf file
> in the AUCTeX source distribution is set on A4 paper.  I suppose if I
> can figure out how to compile tex-ref.tex for US letter paper, I could
> print it on A4 paper using my printer's "scale to fit" option.  Then it
> would be foldable, at the expense of the text being slightly compressed
> or stretched.

Enclosed you can find the source code of the AUCTeX refcard adapted to
to code of the Emacs's one and the resulting PDF.  You can switch
between A4 and letter by setting "\letterpaper" and "\pdflayout"
macros at the beginning of the file.

Bye,
Mosè

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