Re: [NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
 maybe, but i'm hesitant to change this because it has been so from the 
 beginning
 

 Reasonable enough.

 Though the mixed A4/letter dimensions with \setuppapersize[letter] is
 probably not what a user intends and not useful for backward
 compatibility.  They should probably get a PDF with an a4 whateverbox
 (mediabox?).
   
don't worry, when the second arg is missing, context will at least enlarge the 
print paper size to get it fit. 

Hans 

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[NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Should \setuppapersize automatically assume the same typesetting and
printing papersizes, if no optional argument is given?  Then you could
do \setuppapersize[letter] instead of \setuppapersize[letter][letter]

Right now 

\setuppapersize[letter]
\starttext
hello
\stoptext

produces a mixture of letter and A4 dimensions:

$ texexec --pdf a  /dev/null  pdfinfo a.pdf | grep 'Page size'
Page size:  612 x 841.89 pts

Shouldn't it be either 612x792 (letter) or 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)?

   tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
   context : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21
   cont-en : ver: 2006.03.25 13:21  fmt: 2006.4.11  mes: english

It might be because I once ran 'texconfig' to set the default papersize
to letter?

-Sanjoy
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Re: [NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
 Should \setuppapersize automatically assume the same typesetting and
 printing papersizes, if no optional argument is given?  Then you could
 do \setuppapersize[letter] instead of \setuppapersize[letter][letter]
   
maybe, but i'm hesitant to change this because it has been so from the 
beginning

Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] simplify \setuppapersize call

2006-04-11 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
 maybe, but i'm hesitant to change this because it has been so from the 
 beginning

Reasonable enough.

Though the mixed A4/letter dimensions with \setuppapersize[letter] is
probably not what a user intends and not useful for backward
compatibility.  They should probably get a PDF with an a4 whateverbox
(mediabox?).

-Sanjoy

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