Re: [PyX-devel] default paperformat for page: code vs. manual mismatch

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

On 19.05.08, André Wobst wrote:
> you're right. However, I think it's a documentation bug. I would not  
> like to change it. Several reasons:
> 
> 1) As we have centered = 1 by default (which I like), it will  
> influence a lot of figures ... they all will get shifted bboxes, which  
> might create quite some confusion.
> 2) If your figure is too big, you'll get an exceeds paper size  
> warning, which is nonsense if you do not specify a papersize.
> 3) A4 is just too arbitrary. I know we do have some arbitrary defaults  
> at some points (mainly the default unit being centimeters), but this  
> is just because we do need some defaults for that. The papersize isn't  
> important on an equal level.
> 
> +1 for fixing the manual and leaving the code as it is. Comments?

I'd also rather not decide on a default paper format. So let's 
change the documentation only.

Cheers,

        Joerg