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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Re: Unchangeable minimum page length
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- In-Reply-To: <27675.9301210214@cen.ex.ac.uk>; from "Peter Parisi" at Jan 20,
- 939:04 pm
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- I still think that Peter Parisi's problems are due to default.set not
- loading or not loading properly, and thus the system not doing what
- default.set tells it to do. The fact that more than one setting fails
- seems to support this. I am totally un-"pace-ed"!!!
-
- If there's no other file in the path (have you checked partitions?)
- then perhaps it might help to look for damage to the file itself:
- ";"'s where they should not be, or <<MDnn>>'s, perhaps? Try stripping
- extra modes from it. Try comparing it to another copy - try loading
- someone else's, in fact.
-
- Are you doing something fancy with it - like loading NB from a batch
- file, but first making a copy with the batch file and loading the
- copy? This can be useful if you want to run NB in different ways at
- times ("copy \nb3\peter1.set \nb3\default.set" ) for one, and
- peter2.set into default.set for another. Then the version to tinker
- with should be the source for the copy, not default.set itself, which
- has only an ephemeral existence..... I've caught myself out like
- this.
-
- Then perhaps there are the deltas in startup.int; one of these can be
- used to modify default settings in ___style manuals___ in v. 3. When
- you add the delta in the file, maybe you are changing the default set
- thus in a ___style-manual'ed___ file. It may be that if there is NO
- delta in the file for pl at all, then the default.set value is
- effective; but if there is a delta, inserted by a style manual, then
- you must override it with your added delta. This is something which
- gets UK users off-balance in my experience; the style manuals are
- defaulted for paper lengths used in the USA (like foolscap), and here
- A4 is used. The style manual layouts pick up the US settings, and the
- locals must change these by poking deltas into the delta in
- startup.int so that settings appropriate to European standards are
- used instead in style manual layouts. The point to remember is that
- this does not alter default.set's effect; default.set is effective
- only if there is no other effective setting. So look at the delta in
- startup.int - it's delta <<sv499>>, which can contain deltas: see the
- Customisation Guide p. 1-7. Try setting the same values there, as in
- default.set.
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
- Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
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