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

[stephenmoye at cox.net]

---- 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, but I'll know to look
there in the future -- live and learn...

> Do you have lots of other stuff there too? 

I have any number of style and class files, and I keep them there
largely as a matter of convenience. I did put the Lucida Bright family
there, to my regret -- but that was back when at least some of
the then-current advice was in favor of doing just that. At some
point I will have to correct that, though I have come more and
more to believe "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and the Lucida fonts
are working just fine at the moment.

> I've also  
> got a second config.ps file in the texmf.local branch and it is  
> slightly different from the one in the texmf.tetex branch. Maybe it's  
> because I've got my default set as letter size paper.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
> 
> 
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