Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really, arguing that your bug is a feature is just unsightly. If what you > describe was universally a good idea then the right thing to do would be to > make TeX documents require a paper size definition. It doesn't work that way
Yes, and that's a bug in LaTeX. I expect this will change in LaTeX 3.0; it will probably by default write papersize specials. In LaTeX 2e, it won't change since this would be an incompatible change (and because there are lots of good alternatives). > and unless you can convince people to make it work that way I don't think there's a need to convince people. > and eliminate all > system-wide configuration then the Debian package should strive to configure > itself reasonably as the sysadmin and users expect. You still didn't understand: It doesn't make sense to configure *the*Debian*package*. You have to configure *each*document*. Everything else leads to non-portability hell. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
