On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:39:31 +0100 Pavel Sanda <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2014 14:12:48 +0100 SZABO Zsolt <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am very sorry, but it turned out after inspecting the situation more > > precisely, that it is about the geometry package: > > when I set margins explicitly then the geometry package is loaded > > (of course) and its default papersize is different from the system default > > which is overwritten... > > > > Anyway, I think it is still a (minor) bug, because a simple user who > > originally used the default papersize setting and then sets the margins > > does not expect that he should also set the papersize explicitly on a > > different tab... > > I do not see that /etc/papersize is respected at all (in buster), not > even LaTeX seem to respect it.
I re-checked with bookworm and /etc/papersize is not respected with or without geometry package when looking into postscript output. Moreover LyX itself does not put into tex code any specific instruction wrt paper size, so I think underlying TL/dvips is doing it own magic. As I read Norbert's answer /etc/papersize should be actually respected https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/389931/setting-default-paper-size-for-texlive-on-debian but if it's not the case I would enquire in TL packaging not in LyX. I do not see that we want LyX to enquire into /etc/papersize on its own to fix TL or debian-papersize-TL peculiarities. Feel free to reopen, but it looks like wontfix from LyX point of view. Pavel
