Re: libpaper 1.0 on master
Storing one thing in one place is an excellent goal.
Treating multiple things as tho they were one thing (EG "all printers
use the same paper) can be troublesome.
Ideal: keep the option of an /etc/papersize, but allow a user to
override /etc/papersize if desired, thru ~/papersize or environment
variables.
Richard Kaszeta wrote:
>
> >Shouldn't the "paper size" be an attribute of a print queue, and not an
> >attribute of a machine?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
> bofh@bofh.me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
> http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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