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Re: How to set paper size?
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Robert Riebisch |
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Re: How to set paper size? |
Date: |
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:21:44 +0200 |
Mark Summerfield wrote:
> and the other group that you can't. For this second group you have to
> copy the relevant file (e.g., include/doc) to the directory where your
> document is and do
>
> @Include{doc}
>
> instead of @SysInclude{doc}, and make any changes you need (such as
> setting the page size) in the local copy of doc.
I see.
> This is annoying because (1) for small documents you often end up
> needing two files, and (2) if you upgrade lout you may find changes that
> (of course) aren't in your local copy and so you may have to merge them
> (as I've had to do more than once and it was a nightmare, the first time
> anyway).
Yes, that looks annoying, but Jeff might disagree. ;-)
> Lout's default page size is A4, but if you didn't build lout yourself
The problem here was not Lout (I looked at the .PS file), but
Ghostscript. I had to add "-sPAPERSIZE#a4" to the ps2pdf command line.
Nevertheless I'll try to use your response to define page margins now.
Robert Riebisch
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