Hi Troy,
Fedora user here. :)
I have vanilla TL 2022 and installed TL 2021 from the Fedora repos
inside a toolbox. At least in my setup, I got the same behaviour on both
distributions:
I still get A4 even when using "tlmgr paper letter". However, adding
---
\usepackage{geometry}
---
to my TeX file seems to make things work and thus letter is recognized.
I suspect it trigger the corresponding PDF special.
IMHO it's not an issue distribution-wise, but just some idiosyncratic
code behavior.
Cheerio,
Paulo
Em 13/04/2022 15:16, Troy Henderson escreveu:
I recently installed Fedora Linux on a computer, and several packages
require that I have TeX Live installed through Fedora's package
system/repositories. However, the default paper size in this
distribution of TeX Live 2021 is A4, and I would like to change it to
Letter.
The command "tlmgr paper letter" does not seem to affect LuaTeX
(specifically, LuaLaTeX) and fails with the following output:
> sudo tlmgr paper letter
tlmgr: setting paper size for dvipdfmx to letter:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg
tlmgr: setting paper size for dvips to letter:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/dvips/config/config.ps <http://config.ps>
tlmgr: setting paper size for pdftex to letter:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/tex/generic/tex-ini-files/pdftexconfig.tex
tlmgr: setting paper size for psutils to letter:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/psutils/paper.cfg
tlmgr: setting paper size for xdvi to letter:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/xdvi/XDvi
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.
This is almost certainly a Fedora TeX Live packaging issue, and it could
be resolved (I'm confident) by manually installing the binary TeX Live
distribution directly from TUG (which I have done many times before).
However, this is an undesirable solution because it may cause other
packages (that depend on TeX Live) to be "confused" and also would
result in twice the storage used (having side-by-side installations of
TeX Live).
My question is "how can I 'fix' this problem?". Specifically, are
either of the following possible:
* Is it possible to change the default paper size without having to
use tlmgr? Does tlmgr call/execute a particular command that could
possibly be executed manually?
* Is it possible to set the default paper size for Lua(La)TeX from the
command line? For example, "lualatex --defaultpapersize letter" (or
similar)?
Thank you in advance,
Troy Henderson
