Bug#636328: [texlive-base] Correcting syntax did not help
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> wrote:
> 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".
s/should/should be/
However, there is already an error message that isn't that bad all it is
missing is the information where to look, namely
/etc/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps.
I'll add that and close the bug.
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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