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What units are pgfphysicalheight and pgfphysicalwidth defined in?



Unicorn Meta Zoo #1: Why another podcast?
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I often use pgfphysicalheight and pgfphysicalwidth from the pgfpages package to define sizes dynamically based on the dimensions of my page (which vary). For example, here's a "dynamic" vertical space:



vspace*.04pgfphysicalheight


What units are these pgf values actually in? In other words, what is the value of pgfphysicalheight if my document height is 10in?



I found nothing in the pgfpages docs. Also tried logging the values with show, but got something cryptic like "dimen195" which I couldn't decipher further.










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I often use pgfphysicalheight and pgfphysicalwidth from the pgfpages package to define sizes dynamically based on the dimensions of my page (which vary). For example, here's a "dynamic" vertical space:



vspace*.04pgfphysicalheight


What units are these pgf values actually in? In other words, what is the value of pgfphysicalheight if my document height is 10in?



I found nothing in the pgfpages docs. Also tried logging the values with show, but got something cryptic like "dimen195" which I couldn't decipher further.










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    use showthe not show

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I often use pgfphysicalheight and pgfphysicalwidth from the pgfpages package to define sizes dynamically based on the dimensions of my page (which vary). For example, here's a "dynamic" vertical space:



vspace*.04pgfphysicalheight


What units are these pgf values actually in? In other words, what is the value of pgfphysicalheight if my document height is 10in?



I found nothing in the pgfpages docs. Also tried logging the values with show, but got something cryptic like "dimen195" which I couldn't decipher further.










share|improve this question
















I often use pgfphysicalheight and pgfphysicalwidth from the pgfpages package to define sizes dynamically based on the dimensions of my page (which vary). For example, here's a "dynamic" vertical space:



vspace*.04pgfphysicalheight


What units are these pgf values actually in? In other words, what is the value of pgfphysicalheight if my document height is 10in?



I found nothing in the pgfpages docs. Also tried logging the values with show, but got something cryptic like "dimen195" which I couldn't decipher further.







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A TeX length (dimen or skip) register does not store the units used when the value is set, whether you use pt or cm or whatever is not recorded and it just saves the value as an integer which is the length in sp, if you look at the value using the or showthe then TeX will show the value using pt units (that is, the stored integer divided by 65536)



On the terminal you could see this for example by:



$ latex 
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
restricted write18 enabled.
**relax
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

*textheight=10in

*showthetextheight
> 722.7pt.
<*> showthetextheight





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    A TeX length (dimen or skip) register does not store the units used when the value is set, whether you use pt or cm or whatever is not recorded and it just saves the value as an integer which is the length in sp, if you look at the value using the or showthe then TeX will show the value using pt units (that is, the stored integer divided by 65536)



    On the terminal you could see this for example by:



    $ latex 
    This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
    restricted write18 enabled.
    **relax
    entering extended mode
    LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

    *textheight=10in

    *showthetextheight
    > 722.7pt.
    <*> showthetextheight





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      A TeX length (dimen or skip) register does not store the units used when the value is set, whether you use pt or cm or whatever is not recorded and it just saves the value as an integer which is the length in sp, if you look at the value using the or showthe then TeX will show the value using pt units (that is, the stored integer divided by 65536)



      On the terminal you could see this for example by:



      $ latex 
      This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
      restricted write18 enabled.
      **relax
      entering extended mode
      LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

      *textheight=10in

      *showthetextheight
      > 722.7pt.
      <*> showthetextheight





      share|improve this answer



























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        A TeX length (dimen or skip) register does not store the units used when the value is set, whether you use pt or cm or whatever is not recorded and it just saves the value as an integer which is the length in sp, if you look at the value using the or showthe then TeX will show the value using pt units (that is, the stored integer divided by 65536)



        On the terminal you could see this for example by:



        $ latex 
        This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
        restricted write18 enabled.
        **relax
        entering extended mode
        LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

        *textheight=10in

        *showthetextheight
        > 722.7pt.
        <*> showthetextheight





        share|improve this answer















        A TeX length (dimen or skip) register does not store the units used when the value is set, whether you use pt or cm or whatever is not recorded and it just saves the value as an integer which is the length in sp, if you look at the value using the or showthe then TeX will show the value using pt units (that is, the stored integer divided by 65536)



        On the terminal you could see this for example by:



        $ latex 
        This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019) (preloaded format=latex)
        restricted write18 enabled.
        **relax
        entering extended mode
        LaTeX2e <2018-12-01>

        *textheight=10in

        *showthetextheight
        > 722.7pt.
        <*> showthetextheight






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