Re: Support for A0

[Michael Piotrowski]

On 2006-11-06, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Some time ago, I had tried to get support for paper sizes as large as A0
> but failed.
>
> The current `MAX_FULL_LENGTH' (2^23 - 1 units, that is, 148m) is long
> enough for A0, but `MAX_SHORT_LENGTH' has to be increased (its current
> value is 32767, i.e., only 58cm, while A0 is 84.1cm x 118.9cm).  Thus, I
> increased it to 2^17 - 1 (i.e., 2.3m), which means that we can still add
> up a number of `SHORT_LENGTH' into a `SHORT_LENGTH' (since
> `SHORT_LENGTH' is typically 32-bit on 32-bit platforms).
>
> However, there may be other issues since with this change (see patch
> below) Lout ended up not using the whole paper width.

Hmm, I didn't have these problems, cf. my message

  Subject: A0-sized posters
  Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:51:02 +0100

Greetings

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