On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Brian L. Stuart <blstu...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> I just activated my Kindle. I mailed myself the PDF of
>> gawk.1 (of course).
>> At fit-to-screen it's too small, but rotated and increased
>> size it's better.
>>
>> As an emergency place to keep the Plan 9 manuals, it sure
>> beats lugging
>> around all that paper. :-) I'll be experimenting some
>> more.
>
> I've done some fiddling with the ms macros to add Kindle
> support. What I have is:
>
> . \" Override page/font parameters for Kindle
> .if '\nK'1' \{\
> .nr PS 7
> .nr VS 8
> .nr LL 3i
> .nr TL 3i
> .nr PD 0
> .nr PI 3n
> .nr PO 0.1i
> .po 0.1i
> .nr HM 0.1i
> .nr FM 0.1i
> .ds LH
> .ds CH
> .ds RH
> .ds LF
> .ds CF
> .ds RF
> .pl 4i
> .tl
> \}
> .el \{\
> .po 1.25i
> .nr PO 1.25i
> \}
>
> You activate Kindle formatting by setting the K register
> to 1. The biggest issue I've run into are tables and
> figures that need the space of a larger page. As for
> man pages, There's already a register (s) you can set
> to 1 to get it format for 9" pages. That does improve
> things a bit in portrait orientation scaled to fit the
> screen.
>
> Those might at least give you a good starting point.
>
> BLS
>
>
Why don't you guys just print the pdf in landscape A5 format. Should
be readable on all e-ink devices.
