Re: documentation in PDF?

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

On 2008-01-21 17:14:19 +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
> * Bill Allombert [2008-01-21 15:32]:
> > refcard.tex is in TeX, not in LaTeX. Is there an equivalent for TeX
> > document ?
> 
> Yes there is, slightly hackish ( \special{papersize=...} ), and I'd
> rather avoid hardcoding it into the dvi. [ You can override the
> xdvi -paper ... with GPXDVIREF. ]

The user may also want to read the documentation outside of gp.
And he shouldn't be required to add options.

> I've seen many broken "xdvi" implementations, with a rather impredictable
> behaviour with respect to how they handle page size: e.g what happens
> when you resize the window, toggle expert mode on / off, etc.
> ( the experimental gphelp -balloon is completely broken by this ).

All this is in favor of having documents in the more modern and cleaner
PDF format by default...

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