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Hey everybody,<br>
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I have the following problem: I installed TeXLive 2008 from source on
Ubuntu 8.10 (fully updated) using <a
href="http://neoarch.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/tex-live-in-ubuntu-without-the-packages/"
target="_blank">these instructions</a>
(except for the PATH thing, where I used the last comment on the same
page). I chose "letter" as the default paper size for everything and
checked that all the configuration files in
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-config/ have the paper size defined as
letter. I also have /etc/papersize = letter. I checked and overchecked
all the settings, ran "sudo tlmgr paper letter" and so on, but whatever
I do, my LaTeX documents get compiled as A4. Anybody has any idea how I
could solve it?<br>
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TIA...
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