From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: dvi paper-size
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:01:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4298335C.50401@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42982FAF.8080203@physik.fu-berlin.de>
\PtToCm contains assignments, so it won't expand. Here is a macro
that does basically the same, but in a different order.
\def\writepapersize{%
\begingroup
\dimen0 0.0351459804\paperwidth % 2.54/72.27
\dimen1 0.0351459804\paperheight
\special
{papersize={\withoutpt\the\dimen0 cm,\withoutpt\the\dimen1 cm}%
\endgroup
}
Taco
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Peter Münster wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 27 May 2005, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Should be e.g. for "A4" \special{papersize=210mm,297mm} and for "A5"
>>> \special{papersize=148mm,210mm}.
>>> If I add this, it actually seems to work here. I failed to create
>>> something which obtains the papersize automatically.
>>>
>
> Ok, the following works:
> \special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}
>
> It puts (for \setuppapersize[letter][letter]) the following into the DVI
> file (dvips -d3 test2.dvi 2>&1 |grep special):
> papersize=614.295pt,794.96999pt which gv shows as letter.
> Having the right unit (as defined in page-lay.tex, i.e. 148mm×210mm for
> A5, 8.5in×11in for letter etc.) would be probably better, but this works.
>
>> Yes, that's the problem. I tried
>> \special{papersize=\paperwidth,\paperheight}
>>
>
> That expands to:
> papersize=\paperwidth ,\paperheight
> which dvips cannot digest.
>
>> and
>> \special{papersize=\PtToCm{\paperwidth},\PtToCm{\paperheight}}
>>
>
> Whereas that expands to
>
> papersize=\begingroup \scratchdimen \paperwidth \relax \scratchdimen
> 0.0351459804\scratchdimen 0.0cm\endgroup ,\begingroup \scratchdimen
> \paperheight \relax \scratchdimen 0.0351459804\scratchdimen 0.0cm\endgroup
> <cmr12.pfb>[1Processing special: papersize=\begingroup \scratchdimen
> \paperwidth \relax \scratchdimen 0.0351459804\scratchdimen
> 0.0cm\endgroup ,\begingroup \scratchdimen \paperheight \relax
> \scratchdimen 0.0351459804\scratchdimen 0.0cm\endgroup
>
> still something dvips cannot digest.
>
> I have to admit, I actually fail to expand
> \special{papersize=\PtToCm{\the\paperwidth},\PtToCm{\the\paperheight}}
> correctly. It always ends up as \begingroup ... in the DVI file (i.e. as
> above with \paperheight|weight replaced by its numerical value).
>
> Tobias
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-28 9:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-27 18:09 Peter Münster
2005-05-27 19:40 ` Tobias Burnus
2005-05-28 6:55 ` Peter Münster
2005-05-28 8:45 ` Tobias Burnus
2005-05-28 9:01 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
2005-05-28 9:41 ` Hans Hagen
2005-05-28 9:37 ` Hans Hagen
2005-05-28 12:16 ` Peter Münster
2005-05-28 12:31 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-05-29 17:00 ` Hans Hagen
2005-05-28 12:52 ` Tobias Burnus
2005-05-28 11:58 ` Peter Münster
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