On 19-Aug-99 Allan Rae wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Allan Rae wrote:
>>
>> There is a major problem with lyx handling of custom paper sizes when
>> exporting to postscript. In fact, LyX exports to the default paper size!
>> If I run from the command line "dvips -o out.ps -T5.5in,8.5in out.dvi"
>> then the exported ps file uses statement paper: provided you've setup
>> dvips' config.ps first otherwise you still get your default paper.
>
That's the problem because I didn't use this. Are you sure dvips does not
give an error if you specify this custom flag and there is no support for
it? But I think this should work better the it does now. I wasn't aware of
this flag when I made the paper-handling :)
> I've almost finished fixing the custom export stuff but I've found another
> even more serious bug. If the user selects a custom pagesize (ie.
> specifies the page width and height) but then goes and selects the
> papersize Default then when we run latex we get big problems in
> Buffer::makeLaTeXFile.
>
What big problems? Is there an error? If you select Default I think this
is the LaTeX default paper-size and you shouldn't define ANY papersize!!!
And I think this is what happens.
> This happens because use_geometry is still set we don't add a papersize
> option to the \documentclass{...} entry. However, we don't set a
> papersize for geometry either since it falls through the papersize switch.
> I'm adding a switch(lyxrc->default_papersize) to cover this.
>
I don't think we need this entry. The default is a explained above the
LaTeX default!
> So what we'll end up with is working export to custom paper, working
> export to ordinary paper and working export to ordinary or default paper
> with a custom paper size specified. This last one is the tricky one. I've
> decided that if someone selects Layout->Paper->PaperSize{A4} then they
> will get A4 not the custom size. This makes sense after all.
>
That's it! Custom sizes are only valid if you select "Custom" from the
Paper-Layout-Dialog explicitely and IMO this should stay like this.
Greets Jürgen
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