On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 10:21:42PM +0200, Ralf Stubner wrote: > On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:46 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > > > Something like, on first installation, or debconf question "Should > > xdvi/... respect /etc/papersize" with an appropriate file in > > /etc/libpaper.d in such a case: > > Nice. When has /etc/libpaper.d been added?
Don't know - no mention of it in the changelog, unfortunately. > Under what circumstances are > the files in there executed? When paperconfig is executed. Not when the libpaper1 package is installed or upgraded, though (is this a bug?). > How can one provide feedback to the user? Don't know. > Some comments: > > > paper=`paperconf` > > case "$paper" in > > a4) > > texconfig paper $paper > > texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper > > texconfig xdvi $paper > > ;; > > letter) > > texconfig paper $paper > > texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper > > texconfig xdvi us > > ;; > > 'texconfig paper $paper' configures dvipdfm and xdvi, too. So these > lines are unnecessary. In addition, there is a debian specific patch in > dvipdfm that makes it use libpaper directly. Should we remove that then? OK. Didn't realise that. > > legal|a3) > > texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper > > texconfig xdvi $paper > > ;; > > ledger|tabloid) > > texconfig dvipdfm paper $paper > > ;; > > One could add 'texconfig dvips paper $paper' here. But I am not sure if > it really makes sense to support paper sizes that we cannot configure > for all applications, pdfTeX being the culprit here. I would suggest > staying with 'a4' and 'letter' only. Fair enough. Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]