[tex-live] Bad .cfg files in TeX source tree?

[Frank Küster]

David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:

> "Zdenek Wagner" <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 2007/1/19, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:
>>> Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:
>>> ...
>>
>>> I think this is too complicated.  Packages should just check whether
>>> \pdfpagewidth is defined and set it if it is.
>>>
>>> Whether the actual engine is PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph or whatever else is
>>> rather irrelevant.
>>>
>> If \pdfoutput=0, \pdfpagewidth is available but has no effect.
>
> Setting it would nevertheless not do any harm.

Hm, shouldn't it usually write papersize \specials in the dvi file,
then, suitable for dvips or dvipdfm, respectively?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)