On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> I am at a loss of how to best solve this problem. At present, it is
> virtually impossible to use an unpatched LyX to produce a book in the
> (North American) common 5.5in x 8.5in format. I say virtually, because
> in order to preview the book I must print a test copy. The closest I
> can get with LaTeX is a5paper, which is longer and narrower.
Did you try using a custom paper size? Layout->Paper->PaperSize{custom}
and setting the paper height and width by hand.
> I gather from lgb that violating a base class is some sort of heresy.
I think Lars' suggestion for having each layout specify what paper sizes
it supports may be best in the long run. That way we'll at least be able
to offer support for the a0poster.cls that someone else suggested
recently. I suspect we'd also need to keep the paper size definitions in
a file we can read in at start-up rather than continue hardcoding them.
That would make it infinitely easier to add new paper sizes at a local
site. It might also mean we could automatically support any papersize for
any class by automatically filling in the custom paper sizing for those
classes that need it.
Of course we'd need to know if this actually works first. Garst, could
you try setting the custom paper size and compare the output to that of
your modified-for-statement-paper book.cls?
> My feeling is that it was some sort of gross stupidity on the part of
> LaTeX developers to ignore this paper size.
You should file a bug report.
Allan. (ARRae)
