From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4027 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Current way to set default paper size? Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:31:46 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010212083146.01dca990@server-1> References: <20010212052514.41830.qmail@web10708.mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394722 22203 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:38:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:38:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: James Ramsey , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Berend de Boer In-Reply-To: <3A878709.90104@pobox.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4027 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4027 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------