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Re: htmldoc default font size

From Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: htmldoc default font size
Date 2024-06-24 10:20 +0200
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On Sun, 23 Jun 2024, Dan Ritter wrote:

> Use this as a test file:
>
> <html><head><title>testfile</title></head>
> <body><p>here is the base text</p></body></html>
>
> run it through htmldoc without using a --fontsize option, open
> the resulting pdf and measure?

I no longer have a working printer, but when I get access to one, I'll do 
some measurements.

> htmldoc is very badly outdated; if you want proper control, you
> want to use pandoc (yes, Debian packages it) and a CSS file.

I see at https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-for-latex that pandoc has the 
linestretch and fontsize controls for the LaTeX used to produce PDF.

Roger

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htmldoc default font size Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> - 2024-06-23 17:00 +0200
  Re: htmldoc default font size Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-06-23 18:00 +0200
    Re: htmldoc default font size Roger Price <roger@rogerprice.org> - 2024-06-24 10:20 +0200
  Re: htmldoc default font size eben@gmx.us - 2024-06-23 18:10 +0200

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