On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Juergen Vigna wrote:
>
> 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 :)
If there is no support for the custom size (ie. it can't match it to
Statement) then it switches to using the default papersize from config.ps.
There is a warning to this effect.
> 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.
see below...
> > 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!
NO!!!
If you have:
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose}
in your latex file then geometry takes over and says the page size is 0pt
wide and 0pt high. Then latex spends a day and half filling your .log
file with warnings that everything is overfull!
The only way to use the LaTeX default is to not use geometry.sty -- but
the user has got settings that require geometry.sty so run into this
problem.
> 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.
The trouble is/was even that much wasn't properly working.
Allan. (ARRae)
