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Re: [Debathena] #131: dvips uses a4 paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Debathena Trac)
Fri Mar 13 23:42:56 2009
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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 03:42:35 -0000
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#131: dvips uses a4 paper---------------------+------------------------------------------------------
Reporter: jhawk | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: critical | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment(by jdreed):
Yeah, changing this here is the priority. Absolutely none of our
documentation talks about supplying a paper option to documentclass (IIRC
it's mentioned exactly once in the Lamport book, near the back), and as
jhawk points out, if you're sharing documents with international users
(fairly common around here, I bet), they will be sad when they go print it
out and it wants letter paper. Also, if users send an A4 document to any
of our printers the printers will happily sit there asking to be fed A4
paper until the job times out. This happens all the time with people who
come here and bring computers from other locales.
We should fix this now (before it starts screwing over thesis writers
soon) - if the fix we choose is not the Right(tm) one, then we can keep
this ticket open as a reminder to come up with a better one or harass
upstream folks. But people here totally expect LaTeX to default to letter
paper.
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/131#comment:6>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
