Current way to set default paper size?

Current way to set default paper size?

[James Ramsey]

I've been trying to find a way to set the default
paper size in ConTeXt, but no luck. Using some posts
from the mailing list archive as a guide, I tried
creating a file called cont-sys.tex containing the
line "\setuppapersize[letter][letter]" in
/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base, and remaking
the ConTeXt formats with texexec --make. That didn't
work, however.

What am I missing here?

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Re: Current way to set default paper size?

[Berend de Boer]

James Ramsey wrote:

> I've been trying to find a way to set the default
> paper size in ConTeXt, but no luck. Using some posts
> from the mailing list archive as a guide, I tried
> creating a file called cont-sys.tex containing the
> line "\setuppapersize[letter][letter]" in
> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base, and remaking
> the ConTeXt formats with texexec --make. That didn't
> work, however.

I think it should be in /usr/local/texmf/tex/context or something like 
that. Make sure to run mktexlsr so it can be found.

It's loaded at run-time, not when the formats are being generated.

Groetjes,

Berend. (-:

Re: Current way to set default paper size?

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:47 AM 2/12/01 +0100, Berend de Boer wrote:
>James Ramsey wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to find a way to set the default
>> paper size in ConTeXt, but no luck. Using some posts
>> from the mailing list archive as a guide, I tried
>> creating a file called cont-sys.tex containing the
>> line "\setuppapersize[letter][letter]" in
>> /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/context/base, and remaking
>> the ConTeXt formats with texexec --make. That didn't
>> work, however.
>
>I think it should be in /usr/local/texmf/tex/context or something like 
>that. Make sure to run mktexlsr so it can be found.
>
>It's loaded at run-time, not when the formats are being generated.

cont-sys.tex is loaded at runtime, you can start from a copy of cont-sys.rme 

when you make this file you must rehash web2c by "mktexlsr" because
otherwise the file cannot be found 

such user files can go into (eg): texmf-local/tex/context/user

Hans 
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