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

[Will Robertson]

On 20/02/2008, at 9:42 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Accordingly, for somebody who used (plain) TeX for years before
> getting introduced to pdfTeX, it is expected that \mag and
> \magnification won't affect the media size. Which they do if I'm not
> mistaken. Which prevents typesetting of old documents, and hence
> breaks backwards compatibility.

I'm pretty sure that when the pdf(la)tex format is built, it (now!)  
uses a different definition of \mag that *does* preserve backwards  
compatibility.

Will
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