Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:46 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
>
> Something like, on first installation, or debconf question "Should
> xdvi/... respect /etc/papersize" with an appropriate file in
> /etc/libpaper.d in such a case:
Nice. When has /etc/libpaper.d been added? Under what circumstances are
the files in there executed? How can one provide feedback to the user?
Some comments:
> paper=`paperconf`
> case "$paper" in
> a4)
> texconfig paper $paper
> texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper
> texconfig xdvi $paper
> ;;
> letter)
> texconfig paper $paper
> texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper
> texconfig xdvi us
> ;;
'texconfig paper $paper' configures dvipdfm and xdvi, too. So these
lines are unnecessary. In addition, there is a debian specific patch in
dvipdfm that makes it use libpaper directly. Should we remove that then?
> legal|a3)
> texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper
> texconfig xdvi $paper
> ;;
> ledger|tabloid)
> texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper
> ;;
One could add 'texconfig dvips paper $paper' here. But I am not sure if
it really makes sense to support paper sizes that we cannot configure
for all applications, pdfTeX being the culprit here. I would suggest
staying with 'a4' and 'letter' only.
cheerio
ralf
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