reopen 420898
retitle 420898 Use /etc/papersize to configure texinfo.cnf
thanks
Hi Christophe,
On Mit, 25 Apr 2007, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> > And no, the tex program will NOT respect /etc/papersize. Never.
>
> Thank you for this; would you care to explain why?
Short story: There is no papersize in the TeX world, pdftex knows it,
but you have to set it explicitely.
We are currently working (we=Debian TeX Task Force) to solve this
problem in a more general way, ie for all TeX related problems,
including texinfo etc. But this needs quite a lot of work since not all
paper sizes useable for libpaper are acceptable for
TeX/dvipdf*/dvips/xdvi/whatever.
But your suggestion about texinfo.cnf gave me the idea that we could do
the following:
- at first install time install a file
/etc/texmf/tex/whatever/texinfo.cnf
which contains:
- if papersize=a4 @afourpaper
- if papersize=a5 @afivepaper
- if papersize=letter or something else: only comments
- at upgrade time treat it like a normal config file
- at paperconf call time update update the file in the same way
Of course there are loads of problems with this I would have to think
about (paperconf -> a4, automatically set to @afourpaper, sysadm sets it
manually to @letterpaper or nothing, paperconf is called and set to
letter, etc etc).
Best wishes
Norbert
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