[XeTeX] c.t.t. post re: \mag

[Jonathan Kew]

On 11 Jan 2008, at 12:03 pm, Andreas Matthias wrote:

> Will Robertson wrote:
>
>> In case you don't monitor comp.text.tex for posts about XeTeX,
>> Ulrike  Fischer has seemed to uncover a bit of a problem with the
>> \mag  command in XeTeX:
>>   <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/0e433ab85cd02250>
>
> This really looks rather odd.
>
> I just checkout up-to-date SVN version (XeTeX revision 547;
> xdvipdfmx revision 103) and did some test with it.
>
>
> \mag=2000
> \pdfpagewidth=100truemm
> \pdfpageheight=200truemm
> 100truemm x 200truemm\vfill\eject
>
> \pdfpagewidth=100mm
> \pdfpageheight=200mm
> 100mm x 200mm\vfill\eject
>
> \special{pdf:pagesize width 333mm height 222mm}
> 333mm x 222mm\vfill\eject
>
> \special{papersize=333mm,222mm}
> 333mm x 222mm\vfill\eject
> \bye
>
>
> This plain TeX code creates pages with the following sizes:
>
> page 1: 200x400 mm
> page 2: 400x800 mm
> page 3: 666x444 mm
> page 4: 333x222 mm
>
> Hmm. Should be a bug, shouldn't it?

Seems like it. I'm not sure if I've ever used \mag myself, so I don't  
really know much about how it works. But I'll try to look into it....

JK