Thanks, Karl, for the answer. Unfortunately I forgot to work around a misfeature of the Debian BTS - mail to <bugnumber>[EMAIL PROTECTED] don't go to the maintainer, i.e. the debian TeX mailing list. Therefore I'm sending this mail without much input and a fullquote.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) wrote: > But I haven't checked whether it's still that way in > any more current code. > > No code changes have been made (yet) since TL2005. (None of this part > of the code has changed in many years, to my knowledge.) > > > Commenting out the break does solve the problem. > > I don't understand. But anyway, I agree with your basic point that > it should possible to specify exact paper sizes and not have dvips > tinker with them. Does Akira's -tunknown solve the problem for you? > If so, we could at least improve the documentation. > > Thanks, > Karl > Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)