Re: [NTG-context] Some questions about context

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On 3/5/07, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:43:51 +0100 Xan wrote:

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1) The first question is about landscape mode and xdvi. In latex, if we want landscape, we put:

\documentclass[a4paper,10ptt,landscape]{article}

but when we see .dvi in xdvi, xdvi does not detects automatically that it's in landscape mode.

For that, we have to put:

\usepackage[dvips,...]{geometry}

now the xdvi show .dvi in landscape mode

The question is, how we get the same in context?. If we put:

\setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape]

the xdvi program does not detect that .dvi is in landscape mode. Is there an equivalent command of geometry that allow that?

ConTeXt use PDF as default output format. A short test with the dvips way show a rotated content but the page is not roatated, this seems to be not suported

I do not use dvi route, but the page should be rotated in the ps file. AFAIU, dvi has no option for specifying the page size or page orientation. The viewers that honor ps code for page orientation and size rely on the manner that latex puts in those commands in the dvi file. I do not know if ConTeXt follows that route or not.

Also note that dvi mode is not really supported any more. How old is your ConTeXt/TeX distribution? (texexec --version or ctxtools --contextversion) New versions should give you pdf output by default.

What do you mean by "not supported any more". ConTeXt defaults to pdf, but texexec --dvi --nobackends will give you a dvi file.

Yes, dvi is indeed faster, but ...

and allows source specials for forward and backward search. Occasionally, that is really handy. Aditya