Bug#636328: [texlive-base] Correcting syntax did not help
David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 Av 5771 10:32:41 Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Mi, 03 Aug 2011, David Baron wrote:
>> > % 0 0 595 842 is the right bounding box that most applications expect
>> > % for A4. Since dvips always rounds up, choose something slightly
>> > smaller.
>> >
>> > @ A4size 594.99bp 841.99bp
>> > @+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
>> > @+ %%PaperSize: A4
>>
>> That is NOT the config.ps we ship.
Hm. I wasn't aware of this, but that means that my code to translate
paper names to paper dimensions by parsing config.ps is fragile. I
think that changing the units is maybe a strange thing to do, but it
should totally "legal".
The conversion is needed for editing pdftexconfig.tex, which doesn't
know about paper names.
One possibility would be to extract the information from config.ps upon
building the package or now for once, and installing the info somewhere
in TEXMFMAIN - maybe texmf/web2c along with mktexnam and friends?
> No idea. How do I get the correct one installed?
dpkg -i --force-confnew /var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-base_2009-13_all.deb
should work if the file is still there. If it doesn't, there's a
different problem (either in ucf or our usage of it).
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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