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From: Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Request for suggestions including source code
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 17:01:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC1CCCF.5070403@sift.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6167.1304545481@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>

On 5/4/11 May 4 -4:44 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Tom provides the practical answers, I go for the frivolous ones :-) : the following
> latex program will give you the text width of the page:
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \begin{document}
> \the\textwidth
> \end{document}
> 
> %%% Local Variables: 
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End: 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> I get 345.0pt (but you can use geometry.sty to change it).
> 
> Let's say we want to use cmtt10 (at its design size of 10pt, i.e. not scaled up
> or down). The character sizes of this font can be obtained from the TFM file. An
> easy way to get them in human-readable form is to use tftopl:
> 
> tftopl /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmtt10.tfm | grep CHARWD
> 
> will give you the character widths as fractions of the design size. Since this
> is a fixed-width font, all widths are the same:
> 
>    (CHARWD R 0.524996)
> 
> So the width of each character in points is:
> 
>    0.524996 * design size = 5.24996pt
> 
> and you can accommodate
> 
>    floor(345.0 / 5.24996) = 65
> 
> characters per line.
> 
> So there you have it: a frivolous exercise, almost completely OT for the
> list and an almost useless answer[fn:1].

This actually was pretty helpful.  The problem is, of course, that I
can't rewrite all of my source code to be in 65-width lines, nor can I
convince my colleagues to do so.

So what I need now is some way to fix the verbatim environments that are
produced by org-mode to use a smaller font.  I.e., instead of trying to
fix the source code to match char-width, fix the char-width to match the
source code.  Any idea how to do that?

thanks,
r

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-04 20:53 Request for suggestions including source code Robert Goldman
2011-05-04 21:13 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-04 21:44   ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-04 22:01     ` Robert Goldman [this message]
2011-05-04 23:10       ` Nick Dokos
2011-05-05  0:11         ` Robert Goldman
2011-05-04 21:59   ` Robert Goldman
2011-05-04 22:23     ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-05-04 22:29       ` Robert Goldman
2011-05-04 22:49         ` brian powell
2011-05-05 17:07         ` Eric Schulte

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