Re: Documentation

On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 01:48, Joe Conway wrote:
> Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 19:01, Joe Conway wrote:
> >
> >>How does one produce an A4 version? I'll gladly recreate the pdf's in A4
> >>format (if I knew how without a lot of research).
> >
> > I think it is defined for your sgml installation.  I have in
> > /etc/sgml/docbook-dsssl/print/siteconfig.dsl:
> >
> > (define %paper-type% "A4") ;; set by debconf
> >
> >
>
> On my RH 8 box I didn't find that file, but did find the setting in
> /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets/print/dbparam.dsl and changed
> it to "A4" (was "USletter"). Unfortunately that didn't seem to make any
> difference -- the pdfs built were still USletter.
>
> There is probably a more preferred method, but I then modified
> doc/src/sgml/stylesheet.dsl directly, adding
>    (define %paper-type% "A4")
> and that seemed to work. The resulting pdfs are available here:
>    http://www.joeconway.com/
>
> Let me know how they look.

They seem fine, except that the page numbers disappear if I print from
acroread without specifying "Fit to page".  That may be because they
fall into my printer's untouchable space.

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