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#1 2016-08-10 11:27:28

martinc2
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Registered: 2011-09-23
Posts: 60

texlive-2016: Can't set default papersize

Hi,

the recently-released texlive-2016 appears to have a default papersize of "letter".  I'd like to change it to A4.  Following the wiki advice (but using texconfig-sys as root) regenerates a lot of format files but doesn't change the default.  texconfig also issues advice to use tlmgr, but this doesn't seem to be installed on arch.

Any ideas how I can change my default paper size?

Many thanks

--MC

Last edited by martinc2 (2016-08-10 11:27:58)

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#2 2016-08-11 18:47:38

brebs
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Registered: 2007-04-03
Posts: 3,742

Re: texlive-2016: Can't set default papersize

As a knee-jerk reaction on my part, doesn't this work?

echo a4 > /etc/papersize

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#3 2016-08-11 19:27:32

martinc2
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Registered: 2011-09-23
Posts: 60

Re: texlive-2016: Can't set default papersize

Doesn't seem to, sadly

--MC

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