Installation instructions

[Maximilian Linhoff]

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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