On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 00:38 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > When you ran texconfig did you configure "GLOBAL SETTINGS" under dvips? > > Alan
Yes, I have tried adjust via global setting, all it is doing is adjusting this file (I think): /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps to: .... @ letterSize 8.5in 11in @ letter 8.5in 11in @+ %%BeginPaperSize: Letter @+ letter @+ %%EndPaperSize This is the first setting it should be in dvips in order to make page size "letter", there is another part that deals with the margins that might be overwriting the setting, that file is according to: http://physics.wm.edu/~norman/latexhints/pdf_papersize.html called: vmargins.sty Acording the the link above it should be: ------quote ------ % % DEFAULTS: % \setpapersize{A4} \setmarginsrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}{12pt}{11mm}{0pt}{11mm} For example changing this to read: % % DEFAULTS: % \setpapersize{USletter} \setmarginsrb{1in}{1in}{1in}{1in}{0pt}{0mm}{0pt}{0mm} -------end quote---------- Though it is not the case, the end of the file section that deals with margins looks like this: \setpapersize{A4} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt{} [EMAIL PROTECTED] }{ \DeclareOption{shiftmargins}{\shiftmargins} \DeclareOption{portrait}{\Landscapefalse} \DeclareOption{landscape}{\Landscapetrue} [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt{y}} \DeclareOption*{\@@@setps{\CurrentOption}} \ProcessOptions\relax % process options in order of declaration! } \if [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dflt \setmargnohfrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}% \else \setmarginsrb{35mm}{20mm}{25mm}{15mm}{12pt}{11mm}{0pt}{11mm}% \fi ----- I've tried to modify that section but it doesn't work, still asking for A4 paper. Though, I'm not so sure that the whole mess with paper size has anything to do with Latex and dvips. It all started when I un-merge KDE and convert it into kde-split-ebuild. -- #Joseph -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
