From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7152 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Papersize and pdf output. Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:21:16 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <02030713203301.29570@publish> References: <02030710302904.28898@publish> <3C879A52.48E6BD42@salamander.com> <02030712533400.29570@publish> Reply-To: john@wexfordpress.com NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397636 16895 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@let.uu.nl In-Reply-To: <02030712533400.29570@publish> Original-To: Bill McClain Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7152 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7152 On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:53, John Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 07 March 2002 11:50, Bill McClain wrote: > > I tried a garbage value and note that texexec runs without > > complaint and doesn't put anything in the log. > > > > -Bill > > Many Context commands will fail to complain if you feed them > an invalid parameter. This makes debugging quite difficult :-( > > My problem is not with the first parameter (S3) but the second > -- (letter). No matter what I put in the second parameter the > pdf file comes out A4. > > John Culleton Furtheer to the above: I changed the default in page-lay.tex to letter/letter and it didn't seem to help. I tried the absolute dummy file below and it still comes out A4 size. There must be something else overriding my choices in another macro somewhere. I'll use the equivalent pdftex commands until someone suggests a Context solution. Test file (comes out A4) \pdfoutput=1 \setuppapersize[legal][legal] \starttext Hello world \stoptext John Culleton -- John Culleton, john@wexfordpress.com Able Indexers and Typesetters http://wexfordpress.com <------------------------------------> This Linux system at 1:20pm up 14 days 24 min hrs mins