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"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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