Re: libpaper 1.0 on master

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> 
> >Shouldn't the "paper size" be an attribute of a print queue, and not an
> >attribute of a machine?

Well, it could be argued that Yvess libppaper could look at
the current $PRINTER setting, and select the correct papersize
depending on the /etc/papersize.printer file or something. But
at the moment not very many programmes use libpaper or /etc/papersize,
so it's better to have them at least get to recognise a global
/etc/papersize than nothing.

> 
> Paper size effect more that just printers.  Previewers and tex tools
> come to mind, there may be others...
> 
> All I know is right now I've got to tweak quite a few things on a
> standard debian 1.1 system so that dvips, xdvi, genscript, and a few
> other programs work well and have the same idea of a default paper
> size.

Well, after you've done the tweaking, maybe it's worth the little
extra efford of mailing the patches to the maintainer/bug-system
and wait to see them included in the next release?
If you don't want to do that, could you send your patches to me,
so that try to handle it?

Thanks,

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