Bug#402994: use new libpaper hook to track system paper size

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:

> - editing config.ps is non-trivial; there is readymade ed-code in
>   texconfig for this, though
>
> - maybe one could make use of texconfig for editing the files:
>
>   . ship files somewhere in /use/share/$packagename 
>   . copy files to tmpdir in proper TDS structure (see tcfmgr.map)
>   . edit files with 'TEXMFCONFIG=$tmpdir texconfig'
>   . install files with ucf

Yes, that's a good idea. 

> - actually neither 'a4' nor 'letter' as defined in config.ps should not
>   be used as default paper sizes; one should use A4size or letterSize; 
>   see the end of '4.2 Configuration file paper size command' in the dvips
>   documentation (texdoc dvips)

I admit that I don't understand the info file at this point.  It isn't a
bug in PS to specify the papersize correctly, is it?  Then why not map
"a4" onto correct "A4sixe", and the same with letter, or simply define
a4 correctly?

> The latter point might actually be a bug in texconfig and/or the default
> config.ps. 

config.ps in tetex-base starts with A4size and letterSize, so this looks
good.  texlive-base-bin nearly has the same, but it's lowercase
"a4size".  

When calling "texconfig paper a4", it's internally mapped to A4size, and
the same for letter.

Regards, Frank

-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)