Bug#402994: use new libpaper hook to track system paper size
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
>> >>> For dvips I currently see no
>> >>> possibility to have one configuration file specify another one, that
>> >>> should also be read.
>> >>
>> >> Will it read multiple config files, e.g. in TEXMFSYSVAR and
>> >> TEXMFSYSCONFIG/TEXMFDIST?
>> >
>> > I don't now, but I would be surprised if it does.
>>
>> Debian has patched dvipdfm to read two config files: config and
>> fontmaps. I guess this is now unnecessary and predates updmap support
>> for dvipdfm. But we could add a papersize file instead.
>
> Are you talking about dvipdfm or dvips here?
About dvipdfm. I haven't looked at dvips, and it doesn't make sense if
both behave different. I guess the patch to texconfig that you wrote is
the better approach.
If we do it, there's one more thing I'd like to see: texconfig should
check whether configuration files shadow each other (maybe just use
kpsewhere) and warn the user - either only with texconfig conf, but
ideally also when handling this configuration file, and even more
ideally also with the dialog frontend.
> BTW, does texlive include any of these patches to dvipdfm?
No, texconfig is only patched to use sensible-{pager,editor} instead of
{more,vi}, and dvipdfm.c isn't patched at all.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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