[OS X TeX] question about the geometry package

[Morten Høgholm]

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 05:19:22 -0500, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:

> Le 22 oct. 05 à 00:53, Morten Høgholm a écrit :
>
>>    \ifx\Gm at driver\Gm at dvips
>>      \Gm at specialtrue
>>    \else
>>      \ifx\Gm at driver\Gm at dvipdfm
>>         \Gm at specialtrue
>>      \fi
>>    \fi}%
>
> I haven't followed this thread closely, but considering automatic driver  
> selection: it might be nice to add another check for XeTeX  
> <http://scripts.sil.org/xetex/>, based on \XeTeXversion. For example,  
> the adapted color.cfg for XeTeX contains:
[...]
> In that case, for the geometry package the appropriate option would be  
> dvipdfm, since the latest versions of XeTeX support the dvipdfm  
> papersize \special.

I have now also requested support for xetex and dvipdfmx. Since both use  
the same \special settings as dvipdfm it'll be very easy to add; in fact  
all that the dvips and dvipdfm drivers are used for is the above setting  
of a "special" switch.

Hideo Umeki tells me he will have a new release in a couple of weeks. I  
think he is being very, very cautious here because it only takes a couple  
of minutes to implement ;-)
-- 
Morten
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