Installation instructions
Karl Berry
karl at freefriends.org
Tue Jun 11 00:16:15 CEST 2024
I can remove it if someone can certify that a virgin installation on a
virgin OS will correctly default to Letter for Americans and A4 for
everyone else,
No. The default is a4, regardless. I know of no feasible way to make it
geographically based (even if that was desirable, which IMHO it isn't).
As I wrote on https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html, you can change
this by giving the option --paper=letter on the cmdline, or checking the
box in the (gui|cmdline) installer.
and set the MF resolution to HP-300 or something sensible.
The default in TL has always ljfour/600. I just looked at the first TL
(2003) config file and it was ljfour.
I have no idea why the MF resolution should affect anything nowadays
unless someone uses one of the last remaining MF fonts
Right. The Cyrillic lh* fonts being the most likely example.
I have had installations where it defaults to silly
things like Epson 120dpi.
I can't see how that would have ever happened with native TL.
With downstream distributors, who knows. --happy doc-ing, karl.
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