paper options

[David Carlisle]

On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 14:11, Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> wrote:

> No idea, AFAIK it only affect external programmes. For example
>
> \documentclass{article}
>
> does not all of a sudden produce A4
>


Actually the setting _does_ cause pdf(la)tex to make A4 PDF. as you can see
with pdfinfo for example:

Page size:      595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)

However it does not affect latex macros  which still makes a typeset area
targeted for USLetter unless you add [a4paper]

Conversely if your site setting is for US Letter and you add [a4paper] as a
latex option latex formats the typeset area
targeted for A4 but does not actually change the media size unless a
backend package such as graphics, geometry or hyperref is loaded.

Current LaTeX releases have l3backend loaded so we may (finally) be able to
do something about this mis-match.

David



> But latex+dvips might
>
>
>
> *Lars Madsen*
> Programmør
>
> *Institut for Matematik*
> Aarhus Universitet
>
> person.au.dk/daleif at math
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* tex-live <tex-live-bounces+daleif=imf.au.dk at tug.org> on behalf of
> Bob Tennent <rdtennent at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 21 May 2021 15:04
> *To:* tex-live at tug.org <tex-live at tug.org>
> *Subject:* Re:paper options
>
> Thanks Lars. It seems "paper" isn't a tlmgr "option" but
> rather a separate "action".
>
> tlmgr paper tells me that a config file for pdftex is
> affected:
>
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-config/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
>
> Would this include the etex format?
>
> Bob T.
>
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