Re: Papersize setting not reflected in PDF Properties

["R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar" <chyavana-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 29/04/16 19:09, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>
>
> On 29/04/16 16:59, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote:
>> On 29/04/16 13:59, Joost Kremers wrote:
>>>
>>> Actually, the papersize option to the documentclass declaration in
>>> itself doesn't do very much. You'll also need a package that can set the
>>> paper size, e.g., geometry, or use a class style that takes care of it
>>> (the koma classes do; don't know about memoir).
>>>
>>> I'm not an expert in any way, but I do know that setting the paper size
>>> in (La)TeX is a complex topic. (There's a reason why paper size is a
>>> configuration option of the TeX system itself...)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for mentioning options to documentclass in your reply. If, I
>> replace
>>
>> papersize: a4paper
>>
>> by
>>
>> classoption: a4paper
>>
>> in the YAML metablock. I do indeed get an A4 page sized PDF.
>>
>> I guess now my question becomes, why does it not work for papersize?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> And setting
>
> papersize: A4
>
> does not work either.

But setting

papersize: a4

does work.

I needed to get the intermediate .tex file to examine it to see where 
things were going wrong.

It appears that the paper size may be set in three ways with subtle 
differences in result, as they are not all necessarily equivalent:

(a) papersize: a4

(b) classoption: a4paper

(c) geometry:
	- paper=a4paper

Scope for error arises when one stipulates

papersize: a4paper

which leads to the erroneous documentclass option `a4paperpaper` in the 
.tex file. Perhaps this setting could be made uniform in all three cases 
in a subsequent release of Pandoc.

Likewise, fontsize, which may be set in at least two ways:

(i) fontsize: 12pt

(ii) classoption: 12pt

But the scope for error here is reduced since the value for the key is 
the same in both cases: 12pt.

Chandra