Default Paper Size

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at gmx.de
Thu Apr 14 00:05:15 CEST 2022


On 2022-04-13 at 13:17:27 -0500, Troy Henderson wrote:

 > 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
 > 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)?

Does it work with pdftex?  Then you probably have to re-generate the
lua[la]tex format files.

The file luatexconfig.tex, which is read when the format files are
created, contains:

   \input{pdftexconfig}%

Regards,
  Reinhard

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