Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 16:47 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> IMHO, it's better to not have driver specifications in the LaTeX source.
> At least for graphicx and hyperref and if you do not use dvipdfm this is
> the preferred way in the newsgroups. geometry is particular in doing
> *nothing* when it doesn't get a driver in DVI mode, whereas graphix (I
> think) and hyperref (I know) choose *something*: This gives the users
> of dvips working files, and users of dvipdfm(x) or anything else at
> least get decent (albeit verbose) error messages about non-interpretable
> specials. With geometry, you just get no errors or warnings, but wrong
> paper.
hyperref would use the hypertex driver by default. However, hyperref.cfg
in TeX Live and teTeX changes this to dvips for DVI-mode. I don't know
what graphics/ color would do by default, but again the .cfg-file
changes this to use dvips specials. So for sake of consistency it would
be a good idea to adjust geometry.cfg appropriately. IMO this change
should be done upstream, though.
cheerio
ralf
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