Subject: Re: pkg/32176: teTeX package is set to A4 and is hard to change
To: None <kei@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Vynka ~ <vynkster@gmail.com>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 11/30/2005 15:49:02
The following reply was made to PR pkg/32176; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Vynka ~ <vynkster@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/32176: teTeX package is set to A4 and is hard to change
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 16:48:13 +0100
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On 11/28/05, perry@piermont.com <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>
> >Number: 32176
>Description:
> The teTeX package defaults to A4 paper. This is in and of
> itself not a critical problem, but it is especially hard to
> fix it or to make it default to something else. It would be nice if
> you could make it default to US Letter by setting an mk.conf variable,
> by using the getpapersize/setpapersize packages, etc.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Build teTeX. Note that fixing the install for your local paper
> size is arcane and unpleasant.
How US centric. (I have much strongre feelings about this, but typing them
would end in an anti-American rant and I don't want to be kidnapped to
Guantanamo bay and tortured in Iraq.)
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<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 11/28/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sen=
dername"><a href=3D"mailto:perry@piermont.com">perry@piermont.com</a></b> &=
lt;<a href=3D"mailto:perry@piermont.com">perry@piermont.com</a>> wrote:<=
/span>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, =
204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">>Number: =
32176</blockquote><div><br>
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solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&=
gt;Description:<br> The teTe=
X package defaults to A4 paper. This is in and of
<br>itself not a critical problem, but it is especially hard to<br>fix it o=
r to make it default to something else. It would be nice if<br>you could ma=
ke it default to US Letter by setting an mk.conf variable,<br>by using the =
getpapersize/setpapersize packages, etc.
<br>>How-To-Repeat:<br> B=
uild teTeX. Note that fixing the install for your local paper<br>size is ar=
cane and unpleasant.</blockquote><div><br>
<br>
How US centric. (I have much strongre feelings about this, but typing
them would end in an anti-American rant and I don't want to be
kidnapped to Guantanamo bay and tortured in Iraq.)<br>
</div><br></div><br>
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