Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - editing config.ps is non-trivial; there is readymade ed-code in > texconfig for this, though > > - maybe one could make use of texconfig for editing the files: > > . ship files somewhere in /use/share/$packagename > . copy files to tmpdir in proper TDS structure (see tcfmgr.map) > . edit files with 'TEXMFCONFIG=$tmpdir texconfig' > . install files with ucf
Yes, that's a good idea. > - actually neither 'a4' nor 'letter' as defined in config.ps should not > be used as default paper sizes; one should use A4size or letterSize; > see the end of '4.2 Configuration file paper size command' in the dvips > documentation (texdoc dvips) I admit that I don't understand the info file at this point. It isn't a bug in PS to specify the papersize correctly, is it? Then why not map "a4" onto correct "A4sixe", and the same with letter, or simply define a4 correctly? > The latter point might actually be a bug in texconfig and/or the default > config.ps. config.ps in tetex-base starts with A4size and letterSize, so this looks good. texlive-base-bin nearly has the same, but it's lowercase "a4size". When calling "texconfig paper a4", it's internally mapped to A4size, and the same for letter. Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
