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Re: [DOCPATCH] 3.3, make the GPL fix nicely into a few pages
On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 10:35:29AM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, James A Morrison wrote:
>
> > * include/gpl.texi: Temporarily enlarge a page so that the
> > "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs" section fits on
> > one page.
>
> Is this fix one that is generally useful for whatever paper size someone
> might build the manual with, or one specific to @smallbook that should be
> conditioned on FSFPRINT?
This is generally useful for any papersize greater or equal to
@smallbook. It may be rather unnecessary, but it harmless.
> (Some changes affected by paper size - e.g., reducing the width of
> examples, or avoiding long unbreakable strings in paragraphs, or using
> @group where appropriate - are generally useful for multiple paper sizes
> and should be applied. Some changes - e.g. rewording to avoid overfull or
> underfull hboxes with some particular paper size - are only really
> appropriate to apply where the paper size in question is that used for
> printing the FSF-published manuals. When it gets down to fiddling with
Well, I suspect that other people will also print out copies of
manual themselves. This is, after all, Free Documentation.
> the sizes of individual pages, I think that should be conditioned on the
> paper size or FSFPRINT - and someone needs to remember to remove the
> kludge when GPLv3 comes out and GCC is updated to use it.)
When the GPL v3 comes out, I suspect that GCC will just suck in
the newest gpl.texi from GNU, no?
Simon