From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)
To: "Eric J. Haywiser" <ejh1@MIT.EDU>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: HOWTO Configure TeX:: was Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:50:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763t9yqpf.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64L.0805200916430.29330@home-on-the-dome.mit.edu> (Eric J. Haywiser's message of "Tue, 20 May 2008 09:23:00 -0400 (EDT)")
"Eric J. Haywiser" <ejh1@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marc Oscar Singer wrote:
>
>> Nick Dokos wrote:
>>> Marc Oscar Singer <elf@synapse.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Your TeX installation seems to be misconfigured/incomplete.
>>>
>> That was true. Once I installed it, I was able to run make doc.
>> Unfortunately, I still was getting an A4 sized orgcard. I had to
>> add -t letter to the dvips command to coerce the output to be
>> letter. Not sure why.
>
> If you are running the teTeX which ships with many Linux distros, the
> default paper is A4. Running texconfig then selecting paper|letter
> from the menus should solve your problems. The same solution may work
> in other circumstances as well.
Wow! Thanks for pointing that out ;) I've been using teTeX for almost
three years and didn't know about that!
Joel
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-16 16:12 Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter Marc Oscar Singer
2008-05-16 22:01 ` Nick Dokos
2008-05-19 22:18 ` Marc Oscar Singer
2008-05-20 13:23 ` OT: HOWTO Configure TeX:: was " Eric J. Haywiser
2008-05-20 14:50 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
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