[tex-live] Fontspec overriding default paper size with LuaTeX

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-05-26 16:04 GMT+02:00 David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>:

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> On 26 May 2016 at 15:00, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
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>> Hi David
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>> >so far it looks like expected behaviour, I don't see a bug.
>> >
>> >\documentclass{article}
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>> >specifies a USletter document and (once you load a package that knows
>> >anything about the back end) that is what you are getting.
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>> That hasn't been the behaviour since many years.
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> yes honestly latex has not changed here since 199-something.
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>> We allowed for setting the global paper size so that documents without a
>> paper specification got that paper size.
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> where? latex has no local configuration file that is input.
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If I understand the concept well, the default page size (A4 or letter) is
set for the output drivers, not for LaTeX classes.

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> texlive lets you customise the default page sive for pdf/lua tex and dvi
> dvrivers but latex's typesetting has no knowledge of this.
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> a document typeset with
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> \documentclass{article}
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> should produce the same text block _everywhere_ the line breaking does not
> depend on local configuration.
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>> This is broken now, and I consider this very unfortunate.
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> No, pdflatex is working as it always has done, and lualatex is working
> like pdflatex.
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>> Norbert
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>> --
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> David
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Zdeněk Wagner
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