[tex-live] Bad .cfg files in TeX source tree?
Frank Küster
frank at kuesterei.ch
Fri Jan 19 16:50:53 CET 2007
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
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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