Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 11.11.2010 um 00:25 schrieb Wilfred van Rooijen: Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Wil

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Wilfred van Rooijen
location (rather than at (+\infty, +\infty). Cheers, Wilfred --- On Thu, 11/11/10, John Was wrote: > From: John Was > Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX > To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" > Date: Thursday, 11 November, 2010,

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
l, which I'm sure is what I'll need if cropmarks are starting to cause some printers difficulty. John - Original Message - From: "Peter Dyballa" To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" Sent: 10 November 2010 14:57 Subject: Re: [XeTeX] S

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread Peter Dyballa
Am 10.11.2010 um 13:10 schrieb John Was: --papersize=a5 I wouldn't use this command line option. I'd use a \special{papersize=...} which also records these dimensions in the XDV output file, helping xdvipdfmx to choose the proper paper format. -- Greetings Pete No project was ever c

[XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
Does anyone know which papersizes are supported by the (plain) XeTeX --papersize option? (I'm on a Windows XP platform and usually typeset from the command prompt.) I unexpectedly had to resize something to A5 the other day (for a manufacturing printer who didn't want to handle an A4 PDF with

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread John Was
" 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 wi

Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

2010-11-10 Thread William Adams
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