Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:22:27 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:

> So I tried with A4, since my default is now letterpaper.  The pdf seems
> to be OK, but the result of dvips is letter size according to gv.

I've tested a behavior of geometry package with a5paper (not
default in any meaning) and the results are as follows.

      documentclass[a5paper] \usepackage{geometry} \usepackage[dvips]{geometry}
dvips      bad                     bad                  ok
xdvi       bad                     bad                  ok
pdflatex   bad                     ok                   ok
dvipdfmx   bad                     bad                  ok

So I believe \usepackage[dvips]{geometry} works fine with any
'standard' drivers.

I like flexibility of TeX's way/manner of handling papersize
much more than simple 'convenient' way but I can understand
that many users of US (or countries of letter size?) think the
problem very inconvenient so I think it is good to document
what one should do to fix the problem more clearly somewhere
untill we will get a complete fix.

Regards,		      2007-1-30(Tue)

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
 Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima