[tex-live] dvips config.ps letter/a4

[Robin Fairbairns]

Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

>     but the specification of the
>     formats requires integer numbers in milimeters.
> 
> Why?  These definitions are read only by dvips, to decide which
> definition to apply.  It accepts the usual TeX <dimen>s here.

because the iso standards specify round mm values; the original din
standard specified the fractional values, but we don't use that
nowadays.

r