[tex-live] papersizes: in the document or as system-wide setting?
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun Jun 22 18:29:01 CEST 2008
Frank Küster writes:
> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
>
> > In short, my personal opinion is to leave things as they are now.
> > What I absolutely don't want to do is to provide new features which
> > have to be dropped next year.
>
> It would make my life easier if we could kind of agree which paper sizes
> make sense as a default paper size. A4 and letter for sure. If an
> installation is exclusively used to print leaflets or envelopes, the
> local admin might want this - but on the other hand, he'll have to
> provide a corresponding style file for the typesetting size anyway, so
> that one could as well include geometry.sty.
Yes, that's true.
> Are there any printers around that support different standard sizes than
> A4 and letter - maybe something used in far-eastern countries?
teTeX and TeX Live had only A4 as a default in the past and only the
Americans asked for letter. See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size
> Or do lawyers print on "legal paper"?
No, only the Debian people are always worried about legal stuff. :)
Regards,
Reinhard
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