Re: papersize
Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> Anyway, I will reread the bug report and try to understand it (and the
> problem).
The problem:
People expect that when they do nothing, the printer will work and the
printout looks approximately as it does on screen. By chance, this
already is the case for europeans, because a4paper is the default. For
lettersize people, printers refuse to print when a4 is requested, or
else the layout is skewed.
The proposed solution:
A hook in /etc/libpaper.d/ that is executed
a) by "our" postinst
b) by paperconfig
and essentially runs "texconfig paper $paper", after some sanity
checks.
> But, for Frans, if you want portable documents, use geometry, otherwise
> dvips/dvipdfm(x) etc pick up anything from letter to c5, depending on
> the configuration of these programs.
This will always be true.
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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