On Mit, 31 Jan 2007, Frank Küster wrote: > I'm not sure what your opinion is: I read the beginning of your post as > "everything is fine already", but in the end you seem to agree that > changing the system-wide geometry.cfg is good?
I am for adapting geometry.cfg > > I don't think so! It is only that geometry.sty detects pdftex and > > activates this feature. Well, in this sense it is useless ;-) > > What do you think is the use of pdftex? What would be different without > it? I don't know the internals, but probably geometry.sty will not set \pdfpageheight and \pdfpagewidht (or however they are called) and so the final pdf file will have A4 (or whatever is default). > If we agree that dvips is a sane default for >90% of the users (and for > sure it is, if we add those who never use DVI mode), then I think we > should set this default, and not just document it. Ok. Agreed upon. > > /usr/share/texmf-texlive/.... > > or do we put a file into > > /etc/texmf/... > > I would prefer the FIRST option to change the system wide geometry.cfg > > and inform the users that they can override these defaults ... > > The first option IMHO violates the Debian policy. If we use Not agreed upon. We already have a *LOT* of .cfg files in the texmf trees. And as stated in the Debian-TeX policy *every* input file can change *anything*. geometry.cfg does not change the behaviour of a *program* ... What about color.cfg, latexdoc.cfg or however all of them are called. No. I am for changing the code in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/... Why: - it is a sane default and does *NOT* change the behaviour in any bad way - it can be overriden on a per-document basis and on a per-system basis. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Università di Siena Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCRAPTOFT (n.) The absurd flap of hair a vain and balding man grows long above one ear to comb it to the other ear. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]