On Friday 24 January 2003 13:17, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Issue:
> Exporting a linuxdoc article to latex on RH8.0 using Lyx 1.2.3 rpm seems to
> always end up with "letterpaper" in the documentclass. Since latex is used
> as an intermediate format for pdf etc this will affect those formats too.
>
> Tried:
> Choosing A4 in the Layout | Document dialogue-box doesn't seem towork
>
> Setting \default_papersize "a4" in the lyxrc.defaults file doesn't seem to
> work (checked in both master copy and home directory).
I did not implemented that feature, somehow I forgot it, although I use A4.
:-)
> /usr/share/linuxdoc-tools/dist/linuxdoc/latex2e/mapping contains
> "\\documentclass\[a4paper\]{article}" and is being processed.
>
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls contains
> \DeclareOption{a4paper}
> but it is inside
> \if@compatibility\else
> which may or may not be important, although changing the line
> \ExecuteOptions{letterpaper,10pt,oneside,onecolumn,final}
> to refer to "a4paper" doesn't seem to help.
>
> Workaround:
> In the lyxrc.defaults file (master copy in /usr/share/lyx, local copy in
> ~/.lyx) change the line:
> \converter linuxdoc latex "sgml2latex $$i" ""
> to
> \converter linuxdoc latex "sgml2latex -p a4 $$i" ""
>
> I don't know if there's a better way, but this works as a temporary
> measure.
No this is perfect and will always work. :-)
--
José Abílio
