[tex-live] texlive paper sizes

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sat Apr 6 23:23:15 CEST 2013


On 2013-04-06 at 22:45:54 +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > the paper sizes in install-tl-20130406 look a bit incorrect to me:
 > 
 > For example, in tlpaper.pm:
 > 
 >   "a5"       => "14.85x21.0cm",
 > 
 > the A, B and the C series are always rounded to the nearest mm.
 > 
 > Don't know if this has any influence though.

There is no need round values in mm or cm, PostScript use bp anyway
and the error should be less than ±5bp.  Since 1mm < 5bp, it's ok.

See 

  http://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2006-April/001546.html

Regards,
  Reinhard
 
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