[XeTeX] Custom page size

[Wilfred van Rooijen]

Hi all,

In my humble opinion, the best you can do when it comes to custom paper sizes is to use the memoir class. The memoir manual (memman.pdf) has an excellent description of how latex treats the size of the stock, the page, and the folio. The memoir package includes the geometry package, but the memoir packages adds a "geometry check" to make sure that everything is well-balanced and equilibrated.

Cheers,
Wilfred

--- On Tue, 11/1/11, Carsten Ziegert <carsten_ziegert at sil.org> wrote:

> From: Carsten Ziegert <carsten_ziegert at sil.org>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Custom page size
> To: jerome.eteve at gmail.com, "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 11 January, 2011, 8:23 PM
> I am using the KOMA packages, e.g.
> scrbook, and the crop package to
> print marks for the paper cutter. Thus, the custom page is
> printed in
> the centre of an A4 page.
> 
> \documentclass[10pt,twoside,titlepage,paper=138mm:208mm,DIV=calc,index=totoc]{scrbook}
> \usepackage[cam,a4,center,noinfo]{crop}
> 
> But maybe KOMA is recommended more for a German speaking
> context.
> 
> Carsten
> 
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 11.01.2011, 10:58 +0000 schrieb Jérôme
> Etévé:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I myself use the package geometry with much success
> :)
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/geometry.pdf
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > Jerome.
> > 
> > On 11 January 2011 10:52, Sven Siegmund <sven.siegmund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I need help with xetexing a document on a custom
> paper format.
> > >
> > > As far as I understand the page layout, this
> minimal example should
> > > suffice to typeset on my custom format paper.
> However, while the
> > > resulting pagesize of the pdf is just as I
> specified, the text is not
> > > adjusted to its smaller size. It looks like
> typesetting on A4 and then
> > > cutting the pdf to my desired format. The
> compiler does not even
> > > complain abou overfull hbox. What am I doing
> wrong in this minimal
> > > example?
> > >
> > > \documentclass{article}
> > > \usepackage{xltxtra}
> > >
> > > \setlength\paperwidth{155mm}
> > > \setlength\paperheight{240mm}
> > > \setlength\pdfpagewidth{\paperwidth}
> > > \setlength\pdfpageheight{\paperheight}
> > >
> > > \begin{document}
> > >
> > > The resulting text will not fit on the page. Yet,
> when compiling,
> > > pdflatex or xelatex do not complain about
> overfull hbox.
> > >
> > > \end{document}
> > >
> > > best regards,
> > >
> > > S.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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