Installation instructions

[Peter Flynn]

On 10/06/2024 23:16, Karl Berry wrote:
> No. The default is a4, regardless. I know of no feasible way to make
> it geographically based (even if that was desirable, which IMHO it
> isn't).
Good, thank you.

> As I wrote on https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html, you can
> change this by giving the option --paper=letter on the cmdline, or
> checking the box in the (gui|cmdline) installer.
Perfect.

> The default in TL has always ljfour/600. I just looked at the first
> TL (2003) config file and it was ljfour.
Excellent.

> I can't see how that would have ever happened with native TL. With
> downstream distributors, who knows.
More likely naive users fiddling with things they don't understand :-)

Peter