[XeTeX] XeTeX vertical text layout support (for Linux & win32 users)

[Jonathan Kew]

On 19 Jun 2006, at 9:58 am, Jjgod Jiang wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> 2006/6/19, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de>:
>>
>> Did you try the geometry package? In the non-XeTeX world it seems to
>> be *the* means to affect the paper size.
>>
>
> I simply use \special{papersize=6in,9in} in my plain-tex document,
> in a recent post by Johnthan, this special command should still
> working. (and \pdfpagewidth, \pdfpageheight which geometry uses
> are relied on this special command.)

Ah, this all works on OS X with xdv2pdf; IIRC, papersize support is  
not yet implemented in xdvipdfmx, though, unless you do two separate  
runs (xetex -no-pdf, then xdvipdfmx).

JK