Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

[David Kastrup]

Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I have noticed that Lilypond 2.16.0 uses A4 paper size even if the
> locale is set to en_US.utf8.  I can force the letter output by using
>
> -dpaper-size=\"letter\"
>
> but that seems inelegant.  Is there any way to make Lilypond default to
> letter pages without adding anything to the command line?
>
> I used strace and didn't see Lilypond open any file in the home
> directory, such as ~/.lilypondrc or something.
>
> Should not Lilypond respect the LC_PAPER setting from the locale?

I don't think that LilyPond should produce different output on different
systems for whatever reason.

-- 
David Kastrup