Re: [9fans] how up to date are the PDF doc files onplan9.bell-labs.com?

[hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Brian L. Stuart <blstuart@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.