Installation instructions

[Maximilian Linhoff]

Hi,

Here it is stated that LC_PAPER does refer to paper size:
https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/locale.5.html

But indeed, it is a "non-standard" extension of glibc.

Cheers
Max

On 11.06.24 16:36, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> In the latest POSIX draft that I have (2020), there is no mention
> of LC_PAPER.
>
> On CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 24.04, it is mentioned in "man locale", but its
> only example there is a setting
>
> 	LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
>
> That suggests that it refers to character encoding (as might be
> expected for locale support), and that has nothing to do with physical
> paper sizes.
>
> I would view it as extremely unwise to usurp the meaning of LC_PAPER
> in TeX Live to refer to paper sizes.
>
> Most sites are likely best served by an installation-time choice of a
> default paper size, with rare excursions to other paper sizes via
> class options in LaTeX, or the geometry package.
>
> For other TeX engines, authors can simply supply suitable values of
> \hsize, \vsize, \hoffset, \voffset, \paperwidth, \paperheight, etc.
> Recall that the original TeX engine knows nothing of paper dimensions;
> they only became relevant for PostScript and PDF output.
>
> Debian-family operating systems can change the system-wide defaults
> later with the paperconfig command.
>
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