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Re: [Debathena] #131: dvips uses a4 paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Mar 13 18:50:11 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:49:06 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Debathena Trac <debathena@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>, Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
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Debathena Trac <debathena@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 13 Mar 2009
at 22:26:53 -0000 in <051.962b434b3a253ca047db6fde54d1b1b8@mit.edu>:
> Anyway, the Right Answer here is to say
> `\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}`, because you don't want your
> document to be reflowed when you move to Britain, do you?
I absolutely do want my document to be reflowed when it is latexed
in Britain, at least in the general case.
(Similarly when I was printing and binding the beamer documentation
in the US, I had to strip out the things that forced it to A4,
which was frustrating and annoying).
--jhawk
