X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["927" "Thu" "26" "November" "92" "11:27:41" "+0000" "Paul Taylor" "pt@DOC.IC.AC.UK" nil "19" "default paper sizes" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA26868; Thu, 26 Nov 92 12:29:31 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA02497; Thu, 26 Nov 92 12:29:27 +0100 Message-Id: <9211261129.AA02497@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4476; Thu, 26 Nov 92 12:28:58 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2528; Thu, 26 Nov 92 12:28:54 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2526; Thu, 26 Nov 92 12:28:51 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 26 Nov 92 11:27:41 +0000 From: Paul Taylor Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: default paper sizes Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 874 I don't agree with any of Lutz Birkhahn's comments about changing paper sizes. The hypothesis was that we have a CD rom with 15000 documents on it [in source]. FTP archives give rise to a similar situation. In this case I don't care how the documents are typeset - I just want to be able to see as quickly as possible what's in the collection. Maybe later I'll want to print a few of them "perfectly". I quite frequently do this with academic papers distributed in TeX source by FTP. I don't want to fill up my filing cabinet with double-spaced documents on Lamport (American) page size, so I insert "a4", "a4wide" or something else to make the best use of the paper. Increasing the page width is in fact likely to reduce the number of over-full \hbox'es. So, I think the original suggestion, that the paper size should be settable by some external method (such as looking for "paper-size.sty") is reasonable. Paul Taylor