From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: James Ramsey <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com>, ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Current way to set default paper size?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:31:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010212083146.01dca990@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A878709.90104@pobox.com>
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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2001-02-12 5:25 James Ramsey
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