Re: PS error in GSView

[David Raleigh Arnold]

On Monday 24 February 2003 11:04 am, Mats Bengtsson wrote:
> David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > I think that lilypond contributes its own version of config,ps,
> > in order to print with a4 paper.  TeTeX TeX and LaTeX
> > have lettersize as the default, (I hope.  An European
> > maintainer might change it.)
> > which is why you can delete the lines instead
> > of changing them.
>
> This is nonsense, Lilypond doesn' include any config.ps!
> You can easily verify what config.ps file is used on your system:
>
> kpsewhich --format='dvips config' config.ps
>
> In fact, if you download teTeX from CTAN, it is configured for
> a4 paper (remember that the teTeX maintainer Thomas Esser lives
> in Germany).

Bingo!

> The default on your system depends on what Linux distribution
> you use and how that teTeX package maintainer chose to setup
> the installation. You may have got a question during the
> installation of teTeX.

No way.

Lettersize is a built-in default, in that commenting out lines in
config.ps gets you letter size, and a statement in that file
is necessary to get a4. 

Sorry about the wrong attribution.

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