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Karl Berry wrote:
> But I haven't checked whether it's still that way in
> any more current code.
>
> No code changes have been made (yet) since TL2005. (None of this part
> of the code has changed in many years, to my knowledge.)
>
> > Commenting out the break does solve the problem.
>
> I don't understand. But anyway, I agree with your basic point that
> it should possible to specify exact paper sizes and not have dvips
> tinker with them. Does Akira's -tunknown solve the problem for you?
>
It does work great. However, I wish that it was off by default...
> If so, we could at least improve the documentation.
>
The attached patch should do teh job, at as far as I am concerned.
Thanks !
Vincent
--- tetex-bin-3.0/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi 2005-01-30 14:17:32.000000000 +0100
+++ tetex-bin-3.0.new/texk/dvipsk/dvips.texi 2006-04-24 20:19:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -1075,7 +1075,9 @@
@opindex -T @var{hsize},@var{vsize}
Set the paper size to (@var{hsize},@var{vsize}), a comma-separated pair
of dimensions such as @samp{.1in,-.3cm} (@pxref{papersize special}). It
-overrides any paper size special in the DVI file.
+overrides any paper size special in the DVI file.
+Be careful, as the paper size will stick to a predefined size if there
+is one close enough. To disable this behavior, use @samp{-tunknown}.
@item -u @var{psmapfile}
@opindex -u @var{psmapfile}
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