Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to solve a long-standing bug and finally make TeX aware of > libpaper and its system-wide paper size setting. Thanks; I, for one, would greatly appreciate that. > However, taking the intersection of paper sizes the different program's > con

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Frank Küster
Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Some argued that every paper which can be fed to a printer on the >> market might be used as default size on a particular system. > > If you'd like to use a different default, how difficult is the > implementation for the user/administrator of the

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-03 18:44, Frank Küster wrote: > I would like to solve a long-standing bug and finally make TeX aware > of libpaper and its system-wide paper size setting. Good! > However, taking the intersection of paper sizes the different > program's configuration files accept as default, I end up w

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-03 Thread Frank Küster
Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Therefore I asked upstream whether they'd be willing to add more paper >> sizes, and they said they would accept patches. However, they also said >> that they didn't want to bloat the code with

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 18:44 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Therefore I asked upstream whether they'd be willing to add more paper > sizes, and they said they would accept patches. However, they also said > that they didn't want to bloat the code with information about paper > sizes which no one will

Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-03 Thread Frank Küster
Hi all, I would like to solve a long-standing bug and finally make TeX aware of libpaper and its system-wide paper size setting. In a way, upstream's configuration scripts already provide most of the infrastructure needed. However, taking the intersection of paper sizes the different program's con