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Might just be the default settings for things like dvips or similar.</div>
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tlmgr does suppoer a paper option</div>
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<div> paper [a4|letter]</div>
<div> <[xdvi|pdftex|dvips|dvipdfmx|context|psutils] paper</div>
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<div> paper --json</div>
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<div> With no arguments ("tlmgr paper"), shows the default paper size setting</div>
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<div> With one argument (e.g., "tlmgr paper a4"), sets the default for all known</div>
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<div> With a program given as the first argument and no paper size specified</div>
<div> (e.g., "tlmgr dvips paper"), shows the default paper size for that</div>
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<div> With a program given as the first argument and a paper size as the last</div>
<div> argument (e.g., "tlmgr dvips paper a4"), set the default for that program</div>
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<div> With a program given as the first argument and "--list" given as the last</div>
<div> argument (e.g., "tlmgr dvips paper --list"), shows all valid paper sizes</div>
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<div> If "--json" is specified without other options, the paper setup is dumped</div>
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<div> Incidentally, this syntax of having a specific program name before the</div>
<div> "paper" keyword is unusual. It is inherited from the longstanding</div>
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<span> programs, notably "dvips". "tlmgr" does not support those extra settings.</span><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> 21 May 2021 13:59<br>
<b>To:</b> tex-live@tug.org <tex-live@tug.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> paper options</font>
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When one installs TeXLive, one of the options offered is to<br>
set the paper to A4/letter. What exactly does this do? tlmgr<br>
doesn't seem to support a paper option but texconfig does;<br>
what exactly does that do?<br>
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Bob Tennent<br>
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