From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20539 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: dvi paper-size Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:33 +0200 Message-ID: <42986991.80206@physik.fu-berlin.de> References: <429777CA.5080708@physik.fu-berlin.de> <42982FAF.8080203@physik.fu-berlin.de> <42983BD2.5080301@wxs.nl> 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 1117284815 4428 80.91.229.2 (28 May 2005 12:53:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 28 14:53:31 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 1Dc0nT-00072N-Bz for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1A7127F3; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:54:29 +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 02565-04; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:54:28 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5483127E9; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76759127E9 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:42 +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 02548-08 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de (zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.35.155]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36DF127E7 for ; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from w4.physik.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.33.4] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Dc0nt-0003Pc-M5; Sat, 28 May 2005 14:52:39 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <42983BD2.5080301@wxs.nl> X-Scanned: No viruses found. X-Scan-Signature: f04ed29e005bfffb8f994d6c547ac758 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:20539 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20539 Hello, Hans Hagen wrote: >> Ok, the following works: >> \special{papersize=\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight} > > how about adding something to spec-tr: > \definespecial\dosetuppaper#1#2#3% > {\special{papersize=#2,#3}} Ok. By the way, inserting in pt, cm or mm all works; i.e. this simple definition is ok, one does not need to convert to cm. > is this special official? Hmm, I don't know how official it is, but it is used by hyperref and documented, e.g. at http://www.ifi.uni-klu.ac.at/Public/Documentation/dvips/dvips_3.html; this document is for dvips version 5.58f (January 1995). One can thus expect that is is actually supported by most installed TeXs ;) Tobias