Installation instructions
Maximilian Linhoff
maximilian.linhoff at tu-dortmund.de
Thu Jun 13 10:27:47 CEST 2024
Hi,
As with other locale commands, the more specific ones are only needed if
they differ from the base locale.
E.g. if the base locale is en_US and LC_PAPER is unset, use letter
I'm German but my system language is US english, my locale looks like this:
❯ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
I'm on Ubuntu using KDE and adjusted these through the "Language" and
"Formats" system settings
Cheers
Max
On 11.06.24 16:04, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 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
> PostDoc Astroteilchenphysik
>
> Technische Universität Dortmund
> Fakultät Physik / Astroteilchenphysik
> Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a
> 44227 Dortmund
>
> Tel.: +49 231 755 8895
> maximilian.linhoff at tu-dortmund.de
> https://app.tu-dortmund.de
>
--
Dr.
Maximilian Linhoff
PostDoc Astroteilchenphysik
Technische Universität Dortmund
Fakultät Physik / Astroteilchenphysik
Otto-Hahn-Str. 4a
44227 Dortmund
Tel.: +49 231 755 8895
maximilian.linhoff at tu-dortmund.de
https://app.tu-dortmund.de
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