[XeTeX] landscape mode?

[Marcus Hauer]

thank you that works very well when i remove the

	%&program=xelatex

i'ts currently not possible to define something like

	%&program=xelatex -papersize=letter:landscape        ?

that would be much more easier...

thanks,
mh

On Nov 1, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> On 1 Nov 2004, at 10:24 pm, Marcus Hauer wrote:
>
>> hi,
>> i know there were already some questions regarding landscape doc. 
>> with xetex, but is this issue resolved (v0.88)? i mean i tried all 
>> hints in a latex document, but nothing works.
>>
>> i'm using following code (snippets):
>>
>> -------
>>
>> %&program=xelatex
>> %&encoding=UTF-8 Unicode
>>
>> \documentclass[landscape,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}
>
> I'm a bit surprised to see "letterpaper" here....
>
>> (...)
>>
>> \usepackage{osxfonts}
>> \renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{U}
>> \NewOSXFontFamily{HN55}{Helvetica Neue LT Std 55 Roman}
>> \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{HN55}
>>
>> \usepackage{geometry}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>>
>> -------
>>
>> i use the personal script option with:
>> xelatex -papersize=legal:landscape
>
> ....but "legal" here. I would have thought that
>
> 	xelatex -papersize=letter:landscape
>
> would be the appropriate command.
>
> However, I also noted the
>
>> %&program=xelatex
>
> line, which suggests you're using TeXShop; I'm not sure how TeXShop 
> handles this, but I'm guessing it probably takes precedence over your 
> "personal script" setting, and runs the xelatex.engine script 
> *instead*.
>
> To confirm whether your basic LaTeX setup is OK, have you tried 
> running xelatex from the command line instead? If that works, you're 
> just facing TeXShop interface issues. You may need to create a custom 
> "engine" script if you want to use the %&program=.... technique there.
>
> HTH,
>
> Jonathan
>
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