Re: new beta: 2.96.1.20040322

Erik Frisk <[email protected]> wrote :

> 1. xdvi seem to remember the last size of the xdvi window. This is not 
> very convenient when switching between landscape and portrait document.
> Is this intended?

Basically it's intended, but I should probably change it so that the
sizes specified in a document override it (I take it you're using
\usepackage[dvips,landscape]{geometry} in your .tex file?)

Here's the whole story, unfortunately it's a bit complicated:

- Current xdvi saves the current values from option menus and dialogs,
  and the window geometry to ~/.xdvirc. The values in ~/.xdvirc override
  those in ~/.Xdefaults (reasoning: user changed them interactively).

- As for the standard X resources, command-line options override
  the other settings. (The `-geometry' command-line option is a bit
  special since it will get saved to ~/.xdvirc and will be used
  next time, which it probably shouldn't - I'll look into this ...)

- In the current version (22.81.2-RC2) I've added a switch `-q' to
  ignore the settings in ~/.xdvirc.

If the above picture is OK, I guess the fix would be to let
document-specified geometry (ie. via \usepackage[dvips]{geometry}
override the ~/.xdvirc settings. Otherwise, if you hate the entire
idea of saving the window geometry, please tell me now ;-)


> 2. I have a problem with zoomed documents in xdvi. Say I show the 
> document in size 5, which means that the entire page is not visible in 
> the xdvi window. The bug I encountered was that I was not able to scroll 
> (using neither the scrollbars, nor the keyboard) the page all the way 
> down, i.e. I was not able to see the lower part of the page.
> Unfortunately I can not reproduce on any computer on the network (the 
> same tex installation though), it only appears on a SunRay connected to 
> a computer projector. I have no idea how to debug this.

Does the same happen with Shift-Mouse1?

I'd suggest to submit a bug report on
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=23164&atid=377580
and we discuss it there since it sounds like a more specific problem.

Best,
Stefan