Installation instructions

[Maximilian Linhoff]

Hi,

On unix, there is `LC_PAPER` in the locale.

The unix installer could chose the default according to this.

Cheers
Max

On 11.06.24 00:16, Karl Berry wrote:
>      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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Dr.
Maximilian Linhoff
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