Re: [Bug 277298] [NEW] dvips defaults to a4 despite /etc/papersize and $PAPERSIZE

2008-10-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Manfred Georg wrote: > Sigh, yet one more reason we should all just use a4 and be done with it. One of already about 1000 bug reports on that. There is already a proposal in one of the many Debian bugs on that. But volunteers implementing that are missing. Maybe that can be t

[Bug 277298] [NEW] dvips defaults to a4 despite /etc/papersize and $PAPERSIZE

2008-10-02 Thread Manfred Georg
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: texlive-base-bin The default behavior in dvips is to get a4 paper despite any system settings contrary. Although I wish the program actually looked at /etc/papersize or the environment, the package could just set the default correctly in /usr/share/texl