[luatex] Default Paper Size

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

Hi Troy,

Fedora user here. :)

I have vanilla TL 2022 and installed TL 2021 from the Fedora repos 
inside a toolbox. At least in my setup, I got the same behaviour on both 
distributions:

I still get A4 even when using "tlmgr paper letter". However, adding

---
\usepackage{geometry}
---

to my TeX file seems to make things work and thus letter is recognized. 
I suspect it trigger the corresponding PDF special.

IMHO it's not an issue distribution-wise, but just some idiosyncratic 
code behavior.

Cheerio,

Paulo

Em 13/04/2022 15:16, Troy Henderson escreveu:
> I recently installed Fedora Linux on a computer, and several packages 
> require that I have TeX Live installed through Fedora's package 
> system/repositories.  However, the default paper size in this 
> distribution of TeX Live 2021 is A4, and I would like to change it to 
> Letter.
> 
> The command "tlmgr paper letter" does not seem to affect LuaTeX 
> (specifically, LuaLaTeX) and fails with the following output:
> 
>  > sudo tlmgr paper letter
> tlmgr: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg
> tlmgr: setting paper size for dvips to letter: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvips/config/config.ps <http://config.ps>
> tlmgr: setting paper size for pdftex to letter: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
> tlmgr: setting paper size for psutils to letter: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/psutils/paper.cfg
> tlmgr: setting paper size for xdvi to letter: 
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/xdvi/XDvi
> tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
> 
> This is almost certainly a Fedora TeX Live packaging issue, and it could 
> be resolved (I'm confident) by manually installing the binary TeX Live 
> distribution directly from TUG (which I have done many times before).  
> However, this is an undesirable solution because it may cause other 
> packages (that depend on TeX Live) to be "confused" and also would 
> result in twice the storage used (having side-by-side installations of 
> TeX Live).
> 
> My question is "how can I 'fix' this problem?".  Specifically, are 
> either of the following possible:
> 
>   * Is it possible to change the default paper size without having to
>     use tlmgr?  Does tlmgr call/execute a particular command that could
>     possibly be executed manually?
>   * Is it possible to set the default paper size for Lua(La)TeX from the
>     command line?  For example, "lualatex --defaultpapersize letter" (or
>     similar)?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Troy Henderson