From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Eric J. Haywiser" Subject: OT: HOWTO Configure TeX:: was Re: Rebuilding orgcard for US Letter Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 09:23:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <482DB27F.5050100@synapse.com> <20273.1210975293@alphaville.zko.hp.com> <4831FCA3.4020607@synapse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JyRoK-0003vK-EH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 09:23:24 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59880 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JyRoK-0003vC-4c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 09:23:24 -0400 Received: from biscayne-one-station.mit.edu ([18.7.7.80]:46139) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JyRoK-0002Ru-0Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 09:23:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4831FCA3.4020607@synapse.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marc Oscar Singer wrote: > Nick Dokos wrote: >> Marc Oscar Singer 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.