At 2025-04-11T10:08:22+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 11:26:34PM +0000, Lennart Jablonka wrote: > > libpaper reads /etc/papersize case-insensitively; `configure PAGE=???` > > shouldn???t be case-sensitive either. > > The file "/etc/papersize" is no longer on Debian, testing, but > "/etc/paperspecs" (package libpaper2) is, with all lines beginning > with a capital letter or a digit.
Not a problem. I ended up not going with Lennart's patch. I expect the
following to be in my next push.
commit 11e8a5d04c4163d72529f97bd0989b0b0dc3f649
Author: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Apr 11 04:17:45 2025 -0500
[build]: Fix Savannah #67013 (`PAGE` -> "DESC").
Write any desired paper format to generated DESC files.
* font/devdvi/devdvi.am (font/devdvi/DESC):
* font/devlbp/devlbp.am (font/devlbp/DESC):
* font/devlj4/devlj4.am (font/devlj4/DESC):
* font/devpdf/devpdf.am (font/devpdf/DESC):
* font/devps/devps.am (font/devps/DESC): Write the "configure"d paper
format to generated device description files, instead of only ever
"a4" or "letter".
* NEWS: Add item.
[...]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d3db3630e..131d68d1e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -726,6 +726,14 @@ Miscellaneous
* Support for terminal devices using the CCSID 1047 (EBCDIC) encoding
has been withdrawn.
+* You can now specify any paper format you like--including the file
+ specification "/etc/papersize" for systems using "libpaper"--as the
+ default that the groff build writes to generated device description
+ files ("DESC") for the "dvi", "lbp", "lj4", "pdf", and "ps" output
+ drivers. (The paper format must still be valid; see groff_font(5)).
+
+ Example: ./configure PAGE=/etc/papersize --prefix=/opt/gnu
+
* Building groff no longer requires the PSUtils package.
* Building groff no longer requires the makeinfo package. Since groff
[...]
> The correct and official name of the paper format is A4, not a4, see
> for example the standard ISO 216.
I had wondered about that. But I decided a more important matter was
that file names are case-sensitive on POSIX systems, and we don't want
to case-normalize _those_.
Also, we don't want to case-normalize a manual paper format, because "p"
and "P" are different units of measure.
Also, someone might want, say, "B5" as their default paper format.
> So the spelling a4 should be changed to A4.
>
> For example in the font/dev*.am files, papersize should be A4 not a4.
With my patch, we get out of the business of enforcing the "official"
case-spelling of the paper formats, and anything libgroff can interpret
when it reads a DESC file is a valid value of "PAGE" given to the
"configure" script.
Regards,
Branden
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