Hi Greg, please stay reasonable. On 15 May 2006 17:14:34 -0400, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What would you do with my "portable" document written for letter paper if all > you have is A4 paper? It's a bit unclear for me what you are really asking but generally it's no problem for me. > Really, arguing that your bug is a feature is just unsightly. If what you I guess it's more than a feature but a design (or philosophy?) of TeX. If fact, in a sense, one could say that there is no notion of so-called papersize in TeX itself (of course there is in printer driver like dvips). On 15 May 2006 13:35:49 -0400, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You > would prefer eliminating /etc/papersize and having every package have its own > configuration? Or having the user have to set the paper size on every > document? It's clear for me that Frank didn't say such things. TeX is definitely not a system which can be explained with debconf note (or something) nor can be used only by installing tetex packages but need some learnings. I only try to suggest some explanation to help a user who wonder why /etc/papersize doesn't work for TeX by misunderstanding ;-) and I think Ralf's proposal is good (at least good starting point). On Mon, 15 May 2006 09:35:20 +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: > I could imagine some smaller changes, though: > > . tetex-bin, README.Debian, '2.1.3. What is configured where?': > Mention default paper size as one of the things configured via > texconfig(-sys). > > . NEWS.Debian: besides updmap-sys and fmtutil-sys also metion > texconfig-sys. Refer to TETEXDOC for the upstream release notes. > [I don't know how to do this properly, since NEWS.Debian already > contains a part 'NEWS in teTeX version 3.0'. Can we change that part? > Add a 'Further NEWS in teTeX version 3.0' part?] > > . Maybe add a part 'What is not documented here' to tetex-bin's > README.Debian: > - (La)TeX usage (mention TeX FAQ and the introductions in there) > - teTeX in general (refer to TETEXDOC) also I think On Mon, 15 May 2006 18:51:59 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > A program that is designed to handle different paper sizes on > a document-per-document basis should not assume some system-wide > default. This will only confuse things. this kind of generic explanation of TeX would be also necessary. Regards, 2006-5-16(Tue)
