[tex-live] Incompatible geometry.sty changes

Uwe Siart usenet at siart.de
Sun Aug 30 17:48:49 CEST 2009


Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> writes:

> With \ExecuteOptions{a4paper} in geometry.cfg the following
> document will have the wrong PDF size:
>
> \documentclass[a5paper]{article}
> \usepackage{geometry}
> \begin{document}
> \null
> \end{document}

Yep. IMO this is definitely the show-stopper for default paper size
being passed on to package config files. It does more harm than good and
should not be done.

-- 
Uwe



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