latex margin issues --- still

Michael V. De Palatis mdepalatis at mail.utexas.edu
Wed May 3 15:17:37 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:59:59PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Personally, I think this is a paper size problem. Looking at the man
> page for dvips, you can set the paper size explicitly using the -t
> option, but if something in Latex has put a papersize special command in
> the dvi file this will override the -t spec. You might want to try the
> -T which can set the paper size and override any specials in the .dvi file.
> 
> There are also various config files in which paper size can be set,
> e.g., config.ps etc. Check the man page for dvips for details.
> 

Hmm. The thing is, I had run texconfig multiple times, making sure
that everything was set to letterpaper (as it should be since I'm in
the US). Also, I get the same problems from the DVI file itself, so
I'm not sure that it's a conversion issue either.

Mike




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