[tex-live] Bad .cfg files in TeX source tree?

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 04:50:53PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:

> David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > "Zdenek Wagner" <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> 2007/1/19, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:
> >>> Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> writes:
> >>> ...
> >>
> >>> I think this is too complicated.  Packages should just check whether
> >>> \pdfpagewidth is defined and set it if it is.
> >>>
> >>> Whether the actual engine is PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph or whatever else is
> >>> rather irrelevant.
> >>>
> >> If \pdfoutput=0, \pdfpagewidth is available but has no effect.
> >
> > Setting it would nevertheless not do any harm.
> 
> Hm, shouldn't it usually write papersize \specials in the dvi file,
> then, suitable for dvips or dvipdfm, respectively?

Usually these specials set the papersize for the whole dvi file
with *all* pages. \pdfpagewidth, \pdfpageheight can also set
the papersize for individual pages. I don't know, how XeTeX
behaves.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>