[XeTeX] Page is "stuck" in A4 type

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu Jan 28 01:44:57 CET 2010


On Jan 27, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:

> Hi,
>> I doubt that it is geographically determined. It is
>> probably letterpaper by default and settable on install with
>> the TeX Live installer. The MacTeX installer checks to see
>> what your system default is and sets the default
>> appropriately. I'm not sure what happens with MikTeX on
>> Windows.
> 
> AFAIK the TeXLive installer uses the locale settings on the machine to come up with a default. I had one machine set to "en_US" => paper size was suggested. The other machine is "jp_JP" => a4 was suggested.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wilfred
> 
>> 
>> You can use tlmgr (or TeX Live Utility on the Mac with OS X
>> 10.5 and later) to set the default paper size.
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Howdy,

If you never set your locale what is the default? What percentage of folks never set their locale or change it if they move?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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