[tex-live] papersizes: in the document or as system-wide setting? (was: A few glitches in tlnet/tldev)
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Jun 16 03:17:41 CEST 2008
Frank Küster writes:
> So we decided to change the default for pdfTeX, dvips and dvipdfm with
> the Debian system papersize (as specified by libpaper).
Could you send me a list of papersizes supported by Debian? It's no
problem for me to support them. Actually, when I wrote the code I
made all the paper sizes defined in the dvips config file available to
pdftex. I decided to remove them because the main idea was to provide
a script which does the same as texconfig but works on Windows too,
but not to invent any new features.
I had been wondering why each program supports an arbitrary subset of
available paper sizes. I thought that I could postpone this
discussion to TL-2009 development, but since Debian people obviously
have an answer, it would be quite helpful if you can send me a list of
paper sizes supported by Debian. Though I'm quite reluctant to make
significant changes now, adding new paper sizes can be done without
touching existing stuff.
Regards,
Reinhard
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