[OS X TeX] \special{papersize=7in,10in}

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Thu Jul 20 20:13:49 CEST 2006


On 20 Jul 2006, at 6:47 pm, <stephenmoye at cox.net>  
<stephenmoye at cox.net> wrote:

> ---- Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:54 AM, <stephenmoye at cox.net>
>> <stephenmoye at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Solved! Thank you for making me look at the log file. "No match for
>>> special paper size found..." was indeed suspicious. I found a
>>> spurious config.ps file in ~/Library/texmf/dvips folder. Removed
>>> the file and now everything is working the way it should.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> SGM
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> Glad to hear that. I couldn't reproduce the problem here so I had
>> nothing to look for. I wonder how the config.ps ended up in you
>> personal branch?
>
> Good question. Don't have an answer, off hand

Only guessing here, but sounds like it could be the result of running  
texconfig at some point in the past, when you should have used  
texconfig-sys.

JK

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