Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again
Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> writes:
> Bullshit. They shot themselves in the foot and are "flummoxed" (guessing
> the meaning, sorry) whenever they work on a system that is configured in
> a different way than their home computer.
Only if it's configured differently than the paper available in a nearby
printer. Which would be stupid.
Generally what would happen on any reasonably configured system is they would
go to Europe, for example, and rerun LaTeX on their document and print it on
the paper available. If they've only run LaTeX on their document in the US
before and printed on letter paper then presumably they would have to check
the formatting on the new page size just like they had to at home after any
change.
You guys are talking as if every document is a perfected static document. Not
everybody wants a "portable" document that looks identical everywhere. If
that's the case they would just ship the PDF or Postscript.
Most people most of the time when they're rerunning LaTeX on their source file
are doing it because they've made changes or their environment has changed.
There's no point in trying to reconstruct precisely the same document every
time even if they're on a new system where different paper sizes are
available.
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greg
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