On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 05:42:48PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > And if LaTeX doesn't produce a sensible document because a -200% > > scaled picture is requested don't you think it would be reasonable of > > us to ensure the user can't enter such an amount? > > The picture could be serve other purposes unknown to me. Even LaTeX proper > is full of strange hacks that simply happen to work. > > > It would be invalid for LaTeX therefore we shouldn't allow it. > > Have you checked?
gs couldn't render it. LaTeX ignores the sign -- at least graphics does, graphicx may do something different. I did this earlier today and that's why I've been using it as an example. But it's only one example. Allan. (ARRae)