On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > As far as paper size is concerned, as mentioned by Matthew Skala, this > information belongs into each document too. However, there are some > situations where default settings can be useful though, for instance > if you exchange TeX source files with Americans. However, this > requires a well designed page layout which yields good results on > both, A4 and letter paper.
Paper size is special because if you compile your document for the wrong paper size and send it to a printer, at many sites that will cause the printer to stall and demand operator attention while other documents pile up in the queue. Incorrect hyphenation doesn't have that effect. In a multiuser environment it's a given that people *will* leave things on the defaults, whatever those may be; and you can't have queue stalls many times every day just to preserve the purity of the "metadata in every document" model. Administrators will implement a site-local default for paper size whether they should or not. Getting the right set of hyphenation patterns can be more safely left to the users. -- Matthew Skala msk...@ansuz.sooke.bc.ca People before principles. http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
