bug#26085: Formatting of AUCTeX Reference Card

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Tristan,

2017-03-13 16:31 GMT+01:00 Tristan Miller
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> Dear all,
>
> Is there any chance the AUCTeX Reference Card could be reformatted so
> that it is suitable for folding?  The three columns suggest that the
> card is meant to be printed in duplex and folded accordion-style, but
> this turns out not to work because both sides of the page have a wide
> right margin.  If all three columns were the same width (as I suspect
> they already are), and uniformly distributed across the page, then the
> accordion fold would work nicely.

I suspect that the refcard is tailored to letter paper size.  It has
almost the same code as the Emacs refcard, which looks fine on that
paper format[1], but if compiled for A4 is as unbalanced as the AUCTeX
refcard.

I don't think I have the ability to fix this, for sure in this period
I don't have the time to look deeper, but patches to make the refcard
work on A4 paper are welcome.

Bye,
Mosè


Note:
[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf