[XeTeX] koma-script in landscape and xelatex

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Wed Mar 26 19:30:45 CET 2008


On 26 Mar 2008, at 5:35 pm, Alex Hamann wrote:

> Hi list,
> has anybody ever tested to create a pdf in landscape format with the
> koma-script classes and xelatex?
> I struggle hard, but this preamble will set the text in landscape but
> not so the page itself.
>
> \documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{fontspec,xunicode}
> \begin{document}
> hohoho
> \end{document}
>
> I was able to get what I want by switching to latex and iso-latin-1
> but just adding or removing a single package (e.g. babel) could lead
> to the same outcome as described above.
> Is landscape known to be a fragile option? Can anyone get the above
> example to produce correct landscape outcome?
> Help much appreciated,

Try adding

    \usepackage{geometry}

and see if that helps.

JK



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