# [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX

Wilfred van Rooijen wvanrooijen at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 11 00:25:38 CET 2010

Although I may not really understand the question, if you take a look at the manual of the memoir class, it is precisely explained how (La)TeX treats the page size. Also, the geometry package lets you select any page size you want. Basically, (La)TeX does not care about the page size. For (La)TeX, the world consists of a sheet of paper, with some arbitrary point labeled (0,0), and all material is positioned on the paper with respect to (0,0) (which is usually the bottom-left point). Specifying a paper size really means that you inform (La)TeX that the upper-right point is at a certain location (rather than at (+\infty, +\infty).

Cheers,
Wilfred

--- On Thu, 11/11/10, John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> From: John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
> Date: Thursday, 11 November, 2010, 12:38 AM
> Thanks Pete
>
> --papersize=a5 was just a quick fix since I hadn't expected
> the printer to have any problems (he hasn't for the last ten
> years but apparently there's a new machine...).  I'll
> look into this properly but someone else has already
> mentioned the papersize \special, which I'm sure is what
> I'll need if cropmarks are starting to cause some printers
> difficulty.
>
>
> John
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms"
> <xetex at tug.org>
> Sent: 10 November 2010 14:57
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Specifying papersize with XeTeX
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> Am 10.11.2010 um 13:10 schrieb John Was:
>
> > --papersize=a5
>
> I wouldn't use this command line option. I'd use a
> \special{papersize=...} which also records these dimensions
> in the XDV
> output file, helping xdvipdfmx to choose the proper paper
> format.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>   Pete
>
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