Bug#240412: tetex-extra: revtex4 \pageheight and letterpaper bug

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

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On 27.03.04 Hein Roehrig (debian-bts@hein.roehrig.name) wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> The following document produces output "0pt 0pt":
> 
> \documentclass{revtex4}
> \begin{document}
>   \the\paperwidth\ \the\paperheight
> \end{document}
> 
> whereas
> 
> \documentclass[letterpaper]{revtex4}
> \begin{document}
>   \the\paperwidth\ \the\paperheight
> \end{document}
> 
> produces as expected "614.295pt 794.96999pt". With documentclass
> article, there is no difference in the two cases.
> 
> revtex4's ltxgrid.cls contains the following:
> 
> \DeclareOption{letterpaper}
>    {\setlength\paperheight {11in}%
>     \setlength\paperwidth  {8.5in}}
> 
> But this code is never executed if none of the paper options are
> given.
> 
> According to the REVTeX4 Command Summary page 2, letterpaper is
> default and therefore there should be no difference between not
> specifying any paper option and specifying letterpaper. My example
> shows that this is not the case with respect to the \paperheight and
> \paperwidth lengths.
> 
> A good solution would be to have a \ExecuteOptions{letterpaper}
> somewhere.
> 
> I reported this to revtex@aps.org and got as answer that
> work/maintenance of revtex4 at APS has stalled and that they
> considered fixing it if (sic) they make a new release. In view of the
> other outstanding revtex4 bug, I'd think that this warrants fixes
> either in Debian or in teTeX... what do you think?
> 
I got an E-Mail from the RevTeX team telling that they've released
RevTeX 4.1 beta. Are you willing to test it and check if your bug is
solved in the beta version?

Thanks,
  Hilmar
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