Bug#225833: Letter vs A4 again
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:13 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote:
>
> The dvipdfm patch does two things. It increases the number of papersizes
> known to dvipdfm and it adds support for libpaper. I would vote for
> keeping the additional papersizes (maybe even propagating that part
> upstream) but removing the direct libpaper suppport.
Actually it seems to be more complicated. The dvipdfm adds new known
papersizes "a6", "b6", "b5", "b4", "b3", and "b5var". "a6" stands for
ISO A6 paper. But the "b*" are not from the ISO series as one might
expect but from the JIS series. In (x)dvipdfmx one has aliases "isob5"
and "jisb5" etc. plus a *compile time* flag whether "b5" is interpreted
as ISO or as JIS. I am not sure if this does not introduce more problems
than it solves.
cheerio
ralf
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