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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 41613@debbugs.gnu.org, post+ebugs@guelker.eu
Subject: bug#41613: 26.1; ps-paper-type does not change page size
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 23:49:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1kVo5I-0004GO-Uo@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn5al6cn.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Thu,  22 Oct 2020 15:48:08 +0200)

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  > "Specify the size of paper to format for."

  > It doesn't say anything about changing the paper size of the page.  So I
  > think Emacs behaves as advertised here, and I'm closing this bug report.

I agree that this isn't a bug in Emacs's code.  But is the
documentation perhaps prone to misunderstanding?  Would clarifying it
be useful?  Pointing at where to get info about changing the paper
size?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-10-23  3:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-30 10:59 bug#41613: 26.1; ps-paper-type does not change page size Marvin Gülker
2020-10-22 13:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-23  1:58   ` Nick Helm
2020-10-23 10:54     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-24  3:50       ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-23  3:49   ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2020-10-23 14:01     ` Marvin ‘quintus’ Gülker

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