And here is the LaTeX to mimic roff output:
%% Sans serif font, virtually no line spacing, small titles, small margins, no
page numbers
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\linespread{.8}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titlelabel{\thetitle. }
\titleformat*{\section}{\bf}
\titleformat*{\subsection}
Since this has come up on the list several times, to turn my paper
written with troff's ms macros into an A4 pdf, I did this:
{echo '.pl 29.7c
.nr PO 2.2c
.nr LL 16.6c'
cat paper.ms} | troff -ms | dpost | ps2pdf '-sPAPERSIZE=a4' > paper.a4.pdf
I haven't tested it, but I think if you're using non-
In all likelyhood it will be printed in Paris, where since 1791 we use units
and standards that make sense.
So, A4 :)
Le 15 février 2025 19:11:37 GMT+01:00, Alyssa M via 9fans <9fans@9fans.net> a
écrit :
> I suppose we could have custom "Atlantic" paper size: the width of A4 and the
> height
I suppose we could have custom "Atlantic" paper size: the width of A4 and the
height of US Letter: 210mm x 11". That layout would fit on either size of
physical paper. It would also slightly increase everyone's average page count.
I have a draft WiP paper together - I think I'd want to tweak the
We have generally been flexible with the page limits,
since we don't have a huge number of papers and we
aren't making thousands of copies of the proceedings.
Thus an extra page or two per paper isn't going to
incur a big cost. Last year, we didn't formally
print and bind the proceedings. I just
