[OS X TeX] Page origin problem with TeXLive and dvips

Roussanka Loukanova rloukano at stp.lingfil.uu.se
Thu Feb 1 15:53:46 EST 2007


On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Josep M. Font wrote:

>> El 01/02/2007, a las 10:13, Bruno Voisin escribi :
>> 
>>> TeX on the Mac, and especially MacTeX, should be a TeX that "just works".
>>> Having chosen a default paper size via System Preferences, the user is
>>> expecting that TeX, after installation, will honor that choice, without
>>> any extra step needed. The postflight script of the MacTeX installer 
>>> package configures dvips based on this user choice, and that is just right.
>>> I think. Gerben's approach is also just right I think.
>> 
>> As an "ordinary" user, I strongly agree with this, especially the first 
>> sentence quoted above!

I join and strongly agree with this too. It seems to me awful one to have 
to do extra steps to make things work.

Roussanka

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