Re: [PATCH] Provide papersize for refcard.dvi

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 18:47:48 +0200
> From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On 2025-08-06 19:30:52 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 18:00:24 +0200
> > > From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> > > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > > 
> > > On 2025-08-06 18:33:13 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Thanks, but we need to bring some TeX and DVI expert on board.  I
> > > > wonder why GDB needs this whereas, for example, Emacs doesn't.  Is
> > > > there something fundamentally wrong with the GDB refcard?
> > > 
> > > That's strange, because I get exactly the same issue with Emacs.
> > 
> > How come?  I regularly produce refcard.pdf for Emacs, and never saw
> > any such problems.  Do you perhaps have some unusual default
> > definition of paper size?
> 
> PDF is different from DVI.

Doesn't PDF generation go through DVI?  And if it doesn't, then why
should we care about DVI nowadays?

Anyway, I feel we should take this discussion to the Texinfo list,
where we will find people who know about TeX and DVI much more than I
do, and could give some useful advice.