On 02.05.2008, at 23:08, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
On Fri, 2 May 2008, David A. Case wrote:
1. an article with Document->Page layout set to "US Letter" (and
Document->Page
Margins is set to "default") is likely to come out of pdflatex as
A4 (unless,
unlike me, you know enough LaTeX configuration stuff to configure
pdflatex to
do something different).
Not for me. If I set the pagesize as letter, it comes out that size
regardless of compiler used.
Same here, but that may be because I have MiKTeX's default paper
size set to "letter". When you do as Dave said (select letter size
in LyX but keep default margins), LyX emits
\documentclass[letterpaper,english]{article} (give or take the
language) and, barring some other reason to call it, doesn't load
geometry. If you use nondefault margins, LyX adds a call to the
geometry package for the margins and moves the paper size argument
to the geometry call. I vaguely recall a problem with pdflatex
ignoring paper size in the document options but paying attention to
the geometry settings.
Now whether LyX should force a call to geometry just to set the
paper size is another question. Does geometry conflict with any
other LaTeX packages?
Well, at least it does not seem to work to well with some document
classes. In the identical case I consulted the list on a couple of
months ago (http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg58912.html
) geometry did not only change the paper size, but also the margins
and many other elements of the page layout. Probably this is because
the ACM LaTeX classes are crappy, but well, many people have to use
them.
Loading hyperref with the package option "letterpaper" solved it for me.
Daniel
