RE: [boost] printing documentation on A4

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-10-17 00:13:34

Please ignore the 1st sentence of the referenced message. that was typed 
before I remembered I had another browser I could test.
At Wednesday 2002/10/16 21:51, you wrote:
>I suggest that perhaps you have your browser or printer settings messed 
>up.  I just printed section 5.5 from the BLL documentation with my printer 
>set both at "letter" (8.5 x 11") and A4.  Although the right margin is 
>visibly different on the two printouts, the line you show prints fine on 
>both settings.
>On the US setting the trailing ; is 6-13/16" from the left edge
>On the A4 setting it is exactly the same... if you overlay the two pages, 
>the line prints identically.  This is _well_ within the border of an A4 
>page even with reasonable 'margins'
>
>Internet Explorer 6 (Text size medium) running on Windows 2K... Lexmark 
>X74 printer
>
>Opera 6.05 OTOH dropped the last ); of the line (both US and A4) , even 
>when the preview (90%) showed everything would fit.
>I suspect what we have here is a different default setting for what <pre> 
>means for font size in the two browsers.
>
>I'm not what solution to suggest
>
>At Wednesday 2002/10/16 07:47, you wrote:
>
>>The problem is mainly caused by tags that specify a fixed width.
>>Particularly with tables.
>>
>>Also, the <pre> tag effectively specifies a fixed width ( variable )
>>width which is upto the eol. e.g. from BLL section 5, the following
>>runs off the side of an A4 printed page:
>>
>>int i = 0; int j;
>>for_each(a.begin(), a.end(), (var(j) = _1, _1 = var(i), var(i) = var(j)));
>>
>>only the last "));" gets missed off in this case. But I have seen cases
>>( can't remember where at the moment ) where I can not understand the
>>example because too much is missing.
>>
>>/ikh
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
>> > [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Paul A. Bristow
>> > Sent: 16 October 2002 10:28
>> > To: Boost mailing list
>> > Subject: RE: [boost] printing documentation on A4
>> >
>> >
>> > I was hoping someone else could advise the details of how to
>> > ensure this.
>> >
>> > Really plain html works fine, but it is fancy tables etc that
>> > cause trouble.
>> >
>> > html experts advise please.
>> >
>> > Paul
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Unsubscribe & other changes: 
>>http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
>
>Victor A. Wagner Jr.      http://rudbek.com
>PGP RSA fingerprint = 4D20 EBF6 0101 B069 3817 8DBF C846 E47A
>PGP D-H fingerprint = 98BC 65E3 1A19 43EC 3908 65B9 F755 E6F4 63BB 9D93
>The five most dangerous words in the English language:
>               "There oughta be a law"
>
>_______________________________________________
>Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
>

Victor A. Wagner Jr.      http://rudbek.com
PGP RSA fingerprint = 4D20 EBF6 0101 B069 3817 8DBF C846 E47A
PGP D-H fingerprint = 98BC 65E3 1A19 43EC 3908 65B9 F755 E6F4 63BB 9D93
The five most dangerous words in the English language:
               "There oughta be a law"