[XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

[John Was]

Thanks - I'll experiment in due course.  I hadn't thought of specifying the 
physical page (apart from using cropmarks) with \special within the 
document.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Adams" <will.adams at frycomm.com>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 10 November 2010 14:04
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX


> On Nov 10, 2010, at 7:10 AM, John Was wrote:
>
>> it would be useful to know what options are available - and also whether 
>> one can customize the width and height, just in case I encounter a 
>> similar issue with say Demy or another non-DIN/ISO physical page area.
>
>
> in a message entitled Re: [XeTeX] XeTeX equivalent to \pdfpagewidth ?
>
> On Jul 2, 2010, at 8:48 AM, enrico.gregorio at univr.it wrote:
>
>> (Xe)LaTeX users would take care of non standard page sizes with geometry,
>> anyway. Plain TeX addicts should simply say
>>
>> \special{papersize=<width>,<height>}
>
> William
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