[OS X TeX] mactlmgr and a4paper

[Herbert Schulz]

On Mar 19, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Maxwell, Adam R wrote:

>
> On 03/19/09 12:07, "Herbert Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mar 19, 2009, at 12:38 PM, Alain Matthes wrote:
>>
>>> Yes  I know but where is the problem with mactlmgr ??
>>>
>> By mactlmgr I assume you really mean TeX Live Utility (TLU). Do you
>> have TLU set to do
>> `updates for all users' or only personal updates? Do you have a
>> ~/.texlive2008/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex that is being read
>> before the ones in the texmf-config tree? I guess I'm not sure what
>> you are seeing as the problem.
>
> Alain has it set to do updates for all users.  Is it possible to set
> papersize on a per-user basis?  That was my guess as well, since TeX  
> Live
> Utility does the equivalent of `sudo -H tlmgr paper a4` when setting  
> size.
>
> -- 
> Adam
>


Howdy,

I don't know; I was just throwing something out there. If you uncheck  
tha update for all users item do you simply run tlmgr or it sudo tlmgr  
(without the -H)?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)