Installation instructions

[Zdenek Wagner]

út 11. 6. 2024 v 15:14 odesílatel Maximilian Linhoff <
maximilian.linhoff at tu-dortmund.de> napsal:

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

I have just tried on Fedora, Raspbian, and Debian and LC_PAPER is not set.
I do not have access to computers with other distros.

>
> The unix installer could chose the default according to this.
>
> Cheers
> Max
>
>
Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/





> 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.
>
> --
> Dr.
> Maximilian Linhoff
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>
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