Re: shrink factor - newbie question

Paul Burkander <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all,
> I'm sorry to ask a dumb question, but I can't find a helpful answer anywhere.

> I'm using Ubuntu (Jaunty) and emacs and auctex to make LaTeX dvis
> which I then view with xdvi.  Every time I run view from Auctex the
> file comes up with the default zoom level of 8, which looks terrible
> on my screen.  Rather then change it every time, I'd like to change
> the default setting.

> I saw that the variable of interest is shrink factor, and that I need
> to set this.  But, how do I do that???

One possibility is ~/.Xdefaults; see
http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/customization.html
for details. The parameter to set is:

XDvi.shrinkFactor: 6

Cheers,
Stefan


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