Bug#172715: tetex calculates paper dimensions wrong

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

HI,

Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> > Since upgrading to the newest versions of tetex-* (Unfortunately I
> > cannot say which version was the one where that broke but I assume
> > that that problem is since the CVS snapshot) tetex-* calulates the
> > paper dimensions wrong.
> 
> I'm not sure but it seemed muttprint used geometry
> LaTeX package.  It was changed substantially in the
> new teTeX.  What happend if you replaced geometry.sty
> with the old one?  
> 
> If it worked, this is a bug of muttprint, and the possible
> fix will be;
> 
> - change to support the new geometry (the best fix ;)
> - add 'compat2 option like \usepackage[compat2,...]{geometry}
> - provide the old geometry.sty somewhere, e.x. 
> /usr/share/muttprint/geometry.sty and modified muttprint
> like
> 
> \\usepackage[$PaperTex,left=$Config{LEFTMARGIN}mm,right=$Config{RIGHTMARGIN}mm,%
> 	top=$Config{TOPMARGIN}mm,bottom=$Config{BOTTOMMARGIN}mm,headsep=5mm]{/usr/share/muttprint/geometry}
> 
> (I'm not sure if the absolute path worked in \usepackage{...}
> or not, though)
> 
> or modified
> 
> \input{/usr/share/muttprint/geometry.sty} ?
> 
> Anyway, try something similar.

Thanks. I'll lookm into it.

> > When using under woody (I have a woody chroot) with the up to date
> > deb from muttprint which is in sid, I get the following:
> > 
> > http://people.debian.org/~rene/debian/tetex-size-bug/woody.ps
> 
> This and the rest seemed not accessible.

Fixed.

Regards,

Rene
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