[XeTeX] c.t.t. post re: \mag

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Tue Feb 19 15:40:58 CET 2008


2008/2/19, Andreas Matthias <amat at kabsi.at>:
> I just spotted that the left and top margins (the origin of TeX's
> coordinate system) are not scaled by \mag. This is in contrast to
> pdftex. I'm not sure which one is correct. But the way pdftex does
> seems more intuitive.

Thanks. :-)

I believe that \mag has no reason for existence with PDF as its
effect can also be achived by setting the UserUnit key with PDF 1.6++.
Maybe we'll drop support for \mag in luatex in PDF mode someday.

Best
   Martin


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