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

[Zdenek Wagner]

2007/1/19, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:16:01PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
>
> > On the other hand, this sounds like it could require
> > mucking with \everyshi or similar, and that might not be the nicest
> > idea.
>
> LaTeX doesn't provide an interface here, I am hoping for LaTeX 3.
>
LaTeX provides \paperheight and \paperwidth but they are not used for
actual setting of paper dimensions unless some package does it. As I
heard from a lecture at TUG 2006 meeting in Marakesh, LaTeX3 has
interface for such things but I have not read the documentation yet.

> > Another possibility would be if pdfTeX would emit the respective
> > PostScript specials on its own in DVI mode when doing a \shipout and
> > \pdfpagewidth/\pdfpageheight have changed.
>
> Unhappily we don't have a standard special for this. Not even
> the \specials for emitting PostScript follow the same syntax:

That's what I know...

> $ grep literalps at out hyperref.dtx
> [...]
> \def\literalps at out#1{\special{ps:SDict begin #1 end}}%
> \def\literalps at out#1{\special{pS:#1}}%
> [...]
> \def\literalps at out#1{\special{ps:#1}}%
> \def\literalps at out#1{\special{pdf: #1}}%
>
> And there are DVI drivers that don't understand PostScript.
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
>


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