[XeTeX] XeTeX and arbitrary page sizes?

[Stephen Moye]

On 4/22/04 5:52 AM, "Jonathan Kew" <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:

> 
> On 22 Apr 2004, at 10:29 am, Stephen Moye wrote:
> 
>> I need to put something on a page generally called half-letter: 5.5in
>> by
>> 8.5in. How can I tell XeTeX to do this? The -papersize=legal:landscape
>> option works like a charm, by the way.
>> 
> 
> You should be able to say "-papersize=w,h", where w,h are the width and
> height you want, in "big" points. So you'd want -papersize=396,612. Let
> me know if it doesn't work; don't think I've tried this lately!

Thank you -- that works perfectly.

And thanks, too, for the pronunciation tip!
 
>> One other, perhaps slightly frivolous, question: How is `XeTeX'
>> pronounced?
>> I start to tell people about it and am stopped dead in my tracks when I
>> attempt to say its name. The embarrassment is more than I can
>> stand...;>}
>> 
> 
> Good question!
> 
> Personally, I pronounce the name as if it were "zee-TeX"; the "X" as
> "z" by analogy with things like xenon, xylophone, etc., and the "e"
> long rather than short just because that's what seems to sound right to
> me. Of course, the "e" is really supposed to be a lowered backwards
> "E", giving a nice symmetry to the name; I have no idea what that would
> represent phonetically! Unfortunately, not many fonts yet include ?
> (U+018E, LATIN CAPITAL LETTER REVERSED E).
> 
> Does the name mean anything? Only that it's an OS X extension of e-TeX,
> and I rather liked the bidirectional effect. :-)
> 
> Jonathan
> _______________________________________________
> XeTeX mailing list
> postmaster at tug.org
> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex