[tex-live] Incompatible geometry.sty changes

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:49:18AM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 30.08.2009 um 07:19 schrieb Vladimir Lomov:
> 
> >Sorry, my fault. You should use article instead of minimal. All will
> >be ok then. Minimal class doesn't define \paperXXXXX but article does.
> >See lines 63--65, 72--74 and 121 in article.cls (v1.4f, 2005*09/16
> >from TeX Live 2009).
> 
> 
> When I use article instead of minimal I get from pdfinfo:
> 
> 	Creator:        TeX
> 	Producer:       pdfTeX-1.40.10
> 	CreationDate:   Sun Aug 30 10:44:22 2009
> 	ModDate:        Sun Aug 30 10:44:22 2009
> 	Tagged:         no
> 	Pages:          1
> 	Encrypted:      no
> 	Page size:      792 x 612 pts (letter)
> 	File size:      11293 bytes
> 	Optimized:      no
> 	PDF version:    1.4
> 
> although I have set ISO A4 format as default paper size for all sorts  
> of TeX and TeX output files. Why is geometry not following this setting?

Geometry *is* following your setting. The standard classes use
*letter* as default. For A4 you need class option `a4paper'.

>From article.cls:

| \ExecuteOptions{letterpaper,10pt,oneside,onecolumn,final}
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^
| \ProcessOptions

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>