From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20533 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: dvi paper-size Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 11:41:03 +0200 Message-ID: <42983CAF.9030202@wxs.nl> References: <429777CA.5080708@physik.fu-berlin.de> <42982FAF.8080203@physik.fu-berlin.de> <4298335C.50401@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117273112 10708 80.91.229.2 (28 May 2005 09:38:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 09:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 28 11:38:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dbxlq-0001pN-BB for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20AF8127E4; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00885-06-4; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2F1127BB; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B981F127BB for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 00885-06-3 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8641127B2 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j4S9eQNL031052 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:40:26 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 7AFCB1FB94; Sat, 28 May 2005 11:11:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 179F61A68A for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 09:11:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4298335C.50401@elvenkind.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.85.1, clamav-milter version 0.85 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20533 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20533 Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > \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 > } we can use etex to get a fully expandable one: \def\metricdimension#1{\the\dimexpr0.0351459804\dimexpr#1\relax\relax cm} \def\writepapersize {\special{papersize=\metricdimension\paperwidth,\metricdimension\paperheight} ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------