Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote:
1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and
Document->Page
Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as A4
(unless,
unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure
pdflatex to
do something different).
Not for me. If I set the pagesize as letter, it comes out that size
regardless of compiler used.
Same here, but that may be because I have MiKTeX's default paper size
set to "letter". When you do as Dave said (select letter size in LyX
but keep default margins), LyX emits
\documentclass[letterpaper,english]{article} (give or take the language)
and, barring some other reason to call it, doesn't load geometry. If
you use nondefault margins, LyX adds a call to the geometry package for
the margins and moves the paper size argument to the geometry call. I
vaguely recall a problem with pdflatex ignoring paper size in the
document options but paying attention to the geometry settings.
Now whether LyX should force a call to geometry just to set the paper
size is another question. Does geometry conflict with any other LaTeX
packages?
/Paul
