Hi Garst!
On 18-Aug-99 Garst R. Reese wrote:
> I am at a loss of how to best solve this problem.
> At present, it is virtually impossible to use an unpatched LyX to
> produce a book in the (North American) common 5.5in x 8.5in format. I
> say virtually, because in order to preview the book I must print a test
> copy. The closest I can get with LaTeX is a5paper, which is longer and
> narrower. I gather from lgb that violating a base class is some sort of
> heresy. My feeling is that it was some sort of gross stupidity on the
> part of LaTeX developers to ignore this paper size. For me, it is no big
> deal. I will continue patching both teTeX and LyX to suit my own needs.
> Garst
Wouldn't the User defined Option in Layout->Paper help? Then you could
add to the call of dvi in the .lyxrc your added -t statement so that
it produces the right postscript file.
Greets Jürgen
P.S.: You could also contact the developer of the geometry.sty packages
which we use for different not supported papersizes and ask him
if he could add the statment papersize to his package #:O)
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