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jd42
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 Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:10 pm Post subject: help with LaTeX (texlive) paper settings |
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Not sure where is the best place to ask this, but can anyone help get my paper size configured for LaTeX, particularly for PDF generation? No matter what I try, everything seems to revert to A4 size. (Being in the US I need letter sized paper.)
In the past, configuring paper size was done simply by running "texconfig" and selecting the right option.
Now, there seems to be both "texconfig" and "texconfig-sys", but neither function as expected. The interactive mode just quits after the initial screen, and trying batch mode "texconfig paper letter" dumps several "tlmgr: command not found" errors. It seems tlmgr is not included on Gentoo systems?
/etc/papersize is set correctly, and even manually editing /etc/texmf/dvipdfmx.d/dvipdfmx.cfg makes no difference.
What am I forgetting to check? Thanks..... |
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mike155
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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I usually defined the paper size in the documentclass header:
| Code: | | \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article} |
or | Code: | | \documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article} |
But that was 10 years ago... |
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jd42
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2020 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mike155 wrote: | I usually defined the paper size in the documentclass header:
| Code: | | \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{article} |
or | Code: | | \documentclass[11pt,letterpaper,twoside]{article} |
But that was 10 years ago... |
Oh it is set there as well. But the system is overriding that back to A4, and whatever setting is doing so has remained elusive so far. |
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mike155
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 12:10 am Post subject: |
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- How do you compile your document? 'pdflatex mydocument.tex'?
- Which version of TeX/LaTeX is installed?
- Please post the output of 'emerge --info'
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jd42
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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| mike155 wrote: | - How do you compile your document? 'pdflatex mydocument.tex'?
- Which version of TeX/LaTeX is installed?
- Please post the output of 'emerge --info'
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I use latex to compile into DVI, then dvipdfm to convert to PDF. But using pdflatex gives the same result in paper size.
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ununu
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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greets,
From installing texlive suite I recall seeing a funky USE flag somewhere that controlled the type of default page size.
But I am not sure which package or USE flag. The description was something like 'use letter size as default' or something. I know it's part of the texlive dependencies. |
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jd42
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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This last link describes using tlmgr to configure the paper size, which is exactly what texconfig used to do in the past. However, this is no longer possible, because tlmgr no longer appears to be part of the texlive install on Gentoo. As described above, texconfig kicks out the "tlmgr: command not found" because tlmgr isn't present any more.
What is unclear to me is why tlmgr has been removed from the installation, and what is meant to replace it? |
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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jd42, does the \special command help, which is shown in the article fturco linked to? You've got to scroll down a bit to find it.  |
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fturco
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| Posted: Sun May 31, 2020 11:09 am Post subject: |
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According to the article I linked before, if you use the geometry package with the pdflatex command, it should usually work fine:
| Code: | | \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} |
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| jd42 wrote: |
I use latex to compile into DVI, then dvipdfm to convert to PDF. |
Is that done as part of a larger scale bronze age reenactment?
To build example.tex you should use
| Code: | | latexmk -pdf example |
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| Code: | | latexmk -xelatex example |
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jd42
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| Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| PanzerKanzler wrote: | | jd42 wrote: |
I use latex to compile into DVI, then dvipdfm to convert to PDF. |
Is that done as part of a larger scale bronze age reenactment?
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Compiling a LaTeX document into DVI, and then using a converter into a final format is a fundamental concept in how TeX was designed to work. The idea being that when a new favorite output format comes along (PS, PDF, etc.), only a new converter need be developed, and the actual typesetting program needs no changes.
| PanzerKanzler wrote: |
To build example.tex you should use
| Code: | | latexmk -pdf example |
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| Code: | | latexmk -xelatex example |
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Sorry, but there is no "latexmk" command on my system. What package includes that program? |
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fturco
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| Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2020 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| jd42 wrote: | | Sorry, but there is no "latexmk" command on my system. What package includes that program? |
dev-tex/latexmk |
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jd42
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| Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2021 3:17 pm Post subject: |
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Just an update with a workaround for anyone else fighting a similar situation:
Converting from DVI -> PS -> PDF provides a solution.
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dvips -t letter <DOC>.dvi
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will force a letter paper formatted postscript file. This can then be converted to PDF with "ps2pdf".
There still exists the mysteries why setting letter size in various configuration files seems to have no effect, and also why tlmgr is no longer included in the system (and thus disabling texconfig). |
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