Bug#225833: 225833: letter vs A4 in TeX
Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> If your position is that documents without
> an explicit page size should break, as a kind of disincentive for
> doing that or warning that they might break elsewhere, that seems a
> bit strong.
No, they should not break - but they shouldn't change the way they are
typeset depending on the machine where this is done, either. No, nay,
never. I was under the impression that you advocated that. If you
didn't, please take my apologies.
> Admittedly, such breakage is compatible with upstream,
> but that seems a questionable virtue in this case. Upstream, at least
> as embodied in the FAQ cited earlier, does not think the current
> situation is a good one.
I am sure that upstream doesn't think that - but you cannot learn this
from some FAQ, whose authors are not the LaTeX 3 team.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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