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Date: Thu,  3 May 2012 10:59:48 -0700
From: "Brian L. Stuart" <blstuart@bellsouth.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files
	onplan9.bell-labs.com?
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> I just activated my Kindle.=A0 I mailed myself the PDF of=0A> gawk.1 (of =
course).=0A> At fit-to-screen it's too small, but rotated and increased=0A>=
 size it's better.=0A> =0A> As an emergency place to keep the Plan 9 manual=
s, it sure=0A> beats lugging=0A> around all that paper. :-)=A0 I'll be expe=
rimenting some=0A> more.=0A=0AI've done some fiddling with the ms macros to=
 add Kindle=0Asupport.  What I have is:=0A=0A .=09\" Override page/font par=
ameters for Kindle=0A .if '\nK'1' \{\=0A .nr PS 7=0A .nr VS 8=0A .nr LL 3i=
=0A .nr TL 3i=0A .nr PD 0=0A .nr PI 3n=0A .nr PO 0.1i=0A .po 0.1i=0A .nr HM=
 0.1i=0A .nr FM 0.1i=0A .ds LH=0A .ds CH=0A .ds RH=0A .ds LF=0A .ds CF=0A .=
ds RF=0A .pl 4i=0A .tl=0A \}=0A .el \{\=0A .po 1.25i=0A .nr PO 1.25i=0A \}=
=0A=0AYou activate Kindle formatting by setting the K register=0Ato 1.  The=
 biggest issue I've run into are tables and=0Afigures that need the space o=
f a larger page.  As for=0Aman pages, There's already a register (s) you ca=
n set=0Ato 1 to get it format for 9" pages.  That does improve=0Athings a b=
it in portrait orientation scaled to fit the=0Ascreen.=0A=0AThose might at =
least give you a good starting point.=0A=0ABLS=0A