[XeTeX] xelatex and geometry

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Wed Mar 26 19:04:25 CET 2008


Hi,

Jonathan Kew a écrit :
>> Second the geometry.cfg is (at least in miktex) in tex\xelatex and  
>> isn't
>> found when pdflatex is used.
>>
>> So you can be quite sure that with pdflatex the original definition of
>> \Gm at checkdrivers is used and there \usepackage[dvixxx,...]{geometry}
>> works fine in both modes.
> 
> OK, I see. But in that case, couldn't you simplify it greatly? How  
> about:
> 
> 	%% geometry.cfg for XeLaTeX
> 	% Public domain
> 	
> 	\@ifundefined{XeTeXversion}{}{%
> 	 \def\Gm at checkdrivers{%
> 	      \Gm at setdriver{pdftex}%
> 	 }}
> 	
> 	\endinput
> 	
> 	%% End of file `geometry.cfg'.
> 
Hum, my question is certainly stupid, but I can't help wondering: if the file
is in /tex/xelatex, when it is found we already know that we are running
XeTeX, aren't we? So, why the \@ifundefined{XeTeXversion}?

Manuel.


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