[OS X] Re: default paper size in latex

[Andy Jacobson]

On 23 May 2006, at 11:47 , Andy Jacobson wrote:

> 	On my OS X 10.4.6 system, postscript documents produced by latex/ 
> dvips come up by default with A4 paper size.  There's probably a  
> texmf.cnf setting somewhere in /sw/share that can change this,

	OK, I found it.  It turns out that remembering to implement dvips -t  
letter' in every extant shell is just too much of a PITA, and this  
way I just have to do it on every mac once.  The file in question is / 
sw/share/texmf-dist/dvips/config/config.ps.  The trick is that  
whatever paper size is described first in this file is the default  
that dvips will choose.  Talk about obscure!  Solution is to move the  
block of stuff describing "letter" to a position just in front of the  
A4 block.  I attach my working version of this file.  By the way, I  
bet you could put this edited version in your own texmf directory,  
instead of the system one, and have a decent chance of your copy  
overriding the system defaults.

	Reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2002/09/ 
msg00022.html.  Note that debian puts this file in a different location.

	Best,

		Andy

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