Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again
Hi Greg, please stay reasonable.
On 15 May 2006 17:14:34 -0400, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> What would you do with my "portable" document written for letter paper if all
> you have is A4 paper?
It's a bit unclear for me what you are really asking but generally
it's no problem for me.
> Really, arguing that your bug is a feature is just unsightly. If what you
I guess it's more than a feature but a design (or philosophy?) of
TeX. If fact, in a sense, one could say that there is no notion
of so-called papersize in TeX itself (of course there is in printer
driver like dvips).
On 15 May 2006 13:35:49 -0400, Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> wrote:
> You
> would prefer eliminating /etc/papersize and having every package have its own
> configuration? Or having the user have to set the paper size on every document?
It's clear for me that Frank didn't say such things.
TeX is definitely not a system which can be explained with
debconf note (or something) nor can be used only by installing
tetex packages but need some learnings.
I only try to suggest some explanation to help a user who wonder
why /etc/papersize doesn't work for TeX by misunderstanding ;-)
and I think Ralf's proposal is good (at least good starting point).
On Mon, 15 May 2006 09:35:20 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> 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)
also I think
On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:51:59 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> A program that is designed to handle different paper sizes on
> a document-per-document basis should not assume some system-wide
> default. This will only confuse things.
this kind of generic explanation of TeX would be also necessary.
Regards, 2006-5-16(Tue)
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