Re: SVN tetex-bin commit: r2079 - in tetex-bin/trunk/debian: . patches

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

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

> BTW, the above mentioned page also gives a hint as to what these b?
> sizes in the dvipdfm patch are: "The Japanese JIS P 0138-61 standard
> defines the same A series as ISO 216, but a slightly different B series
> of paper sizes, sometimes called the JIS B or JB series." The quoted
> sizes for JB5 etc fit the numbers for 'b5' in dvipdfm.c. Now what should
> one do with something like that ...

Ask libpaper to support the JB sizes with a different name?

Change dvipdfm to support both JB and B sizes?

Should we use JB or JIS B?  Will whitespace in the string work?

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