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MetaPost + TeX rendition of Oliver Byrne's "The first six books of the Elements of Euclid"
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Increase size of diagrams #45

Open bgeorge77 opened 5 years ago

bgeorge77 commented 5 years ago

I use this PDF with my students in a middle school. They have commented that they think the diagrams aren't big enough, especially compared to the pages from the orginal Byrne which I was giving them. Compare, just as an example, Book 1 Prop 13. The original is much "chunkier" (in the words of my students.) Is it possible to easily change the size of the diagrams, or would that require a complete overhaul?

jemmybutton commented 5 years ago

Most of the diagrams are placed on page margins now, because automatic text wrapping doesn't work well with lines of unequal height (such as lines containing pictures). For the sake of convenience for printing on home printers (in Europe) the page is A5 now, and that limits the margin width. I can increase margins and scale up all (but few) diagrams automatically, like so byrne_context_withlabels.pdf The ones in the text stay the same though. It is easy to increase, say angle sectors like in prop I:13 in the original, but that would take dealing with every proposition individually and would require extensive layout changes. If you do need larger diagrams, different page size and major layout changes, i can try and make such a version for you, but i didn't plan to include anything like this in upcoming releases yet.

jemmybutton commented 5 years ago

@bgeorge77 here's a cleaned up version with larger angle in most propositions byrne_context_withlabels_large_diagrams.pdf

bgeorge77 commented 5 years ago

Very nice, much closer to the original, I think.