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Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again



On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 14:14 +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> I personally haven't used this kind of trick but I heard that
> some users like to set
> \AtBeginDvi{\special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}}
> in their preamble.

IMHO this is a bad idea, since it ties your files to dvi-drivers that
understand this particular syntax. The LaTeX packages that I mentioned
on different occasions in this thread do something similar, but in a
more flexible way. For example, they autodetect pdfTeX and use the right
syntax for that.
 
> If this is generic and useful enough, how about to document this 
> in FAQ or something of tetex-bin (or tetex-base?).

IMHO this is a question of general LaTeX usage and in no way Debian
specific. In addition, the UK TUG FAQ (aka TeX FAQ) that Norbert
mentioned is actually in tetex-doc:

/usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc/help/faq/uktug-faq/FAQ-papersize.html

texconfig as interface for changing the default paper size is also
metnioned in the teTeX-FAQ

/usr/share/texmf-tetex/doc/tetex/teTeX-FAQ.gz

I could imagine some smaller changes, though:

. tetex-bin, README.Debian, '2.1.3. What is configured where?':
  Mention default paper size as one of the things configured via
  texconfig(-sys).

. NEWS.Debian: besides updmap-sys and fmtutil-sys also metion
  texconfig-sys. Refer to TETEXDOC for the upstream release notes. 
  [I don't know how to do this properly, since NEWS.Debian already
  contains a part 'NEWS in teTeX version 3.0'. Can we change that part?
  Add a 'Further NEWS in teTeX version 3.0' part?]

. Maybe add a part 'What is not documented here' to tetex-bin's
  README.Debian: 
    - (La)TeX usage (mention TeX FAQ and the introductions in there)
    - teTeX in general (refer to TETEXDOC)

cheerio
ralf



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