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A big problem for Europeans is that Tectonic currently defaults to US letter paper size: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/126 https://gi
by ngirard 7y ago
A big problem for Europeans is that Tectonic currently defaults to US letter paper size:
https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/126 https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/126
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- macintux 7y agoYou and I have very different definitions of "big".
- coldtea 7y agoAlas, that's what my girlfriend said!
- chucksmash 7y agoYes, I believe that's what the GP is saying.
- hprotagonist 7y agocontrariwise i’ve spent the last 20 years remembering right after the first compile on any fresh install to not use A4 and instead use letter, so...
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoThe default would be more convenient at 210mm x 11in.
- sachdevap 7y agoBrain explodes looking at mm x in
- saghm 7y agoIt has to default to one size though, right? What's the argument that US letter size should not be the default?
- abdullahkhalids 7y agoA4 is an internationally agreed upon standard, letter size is a mostly US thing. It's the whole SI units vs imperial units debate all over again. Makes sense to have the international standard as default rather than a country specific one. > Letter or ANSI Letter is a paper size commonly used as home or office stationery in the United States, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines. It measures 8.5 by 11 inches (215.9 by 279.4 mm). US Letter-size paper is a standard defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI, paper size A), in contrast to A4 paper used by most other countries, and adopted at varying dates, which is defined by the International Organization for Standardization, specifically in ISO 216. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_%28paper_size%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_%28paper_size%29
- eadmund 7y agoLaTeX was invented in the U.S. (as was Unix, as was the transistor), so it makes sense for the default to be letter size. It makes sense for there to be a system-wide setting to override the software default, so folks who use some other standard can set it once and never worry about it again. It should respect LC_PAPER on GNU systems, too.
- EdSchouten 7y agoBecause there are about 10 times as many people in the world that use A4 instead of US Letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:Prevalent_default_paper_size.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#/media/File:Prevale...
- a4paper_ 7y ago\documentclass[a4paper]{article}