[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#767072: lyx: default papersize neglect /etc/papersize ?

[SZABO Zsolt]

Package: lyx
Version: 2.0.3-3
Severity: minor
Tags: l10n

Dear Maintainer,

it seems that lyx with the default document settings (not setting anything
explicitly) does not care the content of /etc/papersize... (or the default
behaviour of latex system)

I.e. /etc/papersize is set to a4
and lyx create documents with letter format.

[...] Maybe it does not depends on /etc/papaersize, because
removing /etc/papersize the following also produces a4 format:
$ cat <<. >test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\title{Test document}
\author{Me}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\end{document}
.
$ latex test
$ dvips test
$ head test.ps
$ head test.ps 
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: dvips(k) 5.992 Copyright 2012 Radical Eye Software
%%Title: test.dvi
%%CreationDate: Tue Oct 28 09:54:37 2014
%%Pages: 1
%%PageOrder: Ascend
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842
%%DocumentFonts: CMR17 CMR12 CMR10
%%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
%%EndComments

I would expect that lyx creates documents in the same format as the command
latex without setting anything explicitly...

TIA,
Zsolt Szabo

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Architecture: i386 (i686)

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Locale: LANG=hu_HU, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lyx depends on:
ii  libboost-regex1.49.0    1.49.0-3.2
ii  libboost-signals1.49.0  1.49.0-3.2
ii  libc6                   2.13-38+deb7u6
ii  libenchant1c2a          1.6.0-7
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.7.2-5
ii  libmythes-1.2-0         2:1.2.2-1
ii  libqtcore4              4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4               4:4.8.2+dfsg-11
ii  libstdc++6              4.7.2-5
ii  lyx-common              2.0.3-3
ii  xdg-utils               1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6+deb7u1
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages lyx recommends:
ii  dvipng                       1.14-1+b1
ii  epdfview [pdf-viewer]        0.1.8-3
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]          3.4.0-3.1
ii  fonts-lyx                    2.0.3-3
ii  ghostscript                  9.05~dfsg-6.3+deb7u1
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]              1:3.7.3-1
ii  hevea                        1.10-14
ii  imagemagick                  8:6.7.7.10-5+deb7u3
ii  latex2html                   2008-debian1-7
ii  poppler-utils                0.18.4-6
ii  preview-latex-style          11.86-11
ii  psutils                      1.17.dfsg-1
ii  tex4ht                       20090611-1.1+b1
ii  texlive-fonts-recommended    2012.20120611-5
ii  texlive-generic-extra        2012.20120611-2
ii  texlive-generic-recommended  2012.20120611-5
ii  texlive-latex-extra          2012.20120611-2
ii  texlive-latex-recommended    2012.20120611-5
ii  texlive-science              2012.20120611-2
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]            3.03-10

Versions of packages lyx suggests:
ii  chktex          1.6.4-4
pn  dvipost         <none>
pn  etoolbox        <none>
ii  gnuhtml2latex   0.4-2
ii  groff           1.21-9
ii  inkscape        0.48.3.1-1.3
ii  latex2rtf       1.9.19-4.2
ii  librsvg2-bin    2.36.1-2
ii  libtiff-tools   4.0.2-6+deb7u3
pn  linuxdoc-tools  <none>
pn  lyx-dbg         <none>
pn  noweb           <none>
pn  rcs             <none>
pn  sgmltools-lite  <none>
pn  texlive-xetex   <none>
pn  writer2latex    <none>
ii  wv              1.2.9-3

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