Re: LC_PAPER and default paper size

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, David Kastrup wrote:

> What is wrong with specifying the paper size you want in the \paper
> block?
>
> More often than not, the global staff size and manual tweaks are set to
> achieve a certain page layout.  If LilyPond changed its behavior on
> different computers, stuff would stop working without the user having a
> clue that this was not intended output.

Yes, this is a good reason why Lilypond does not respect LC_PAPER

If - for whatever strange reason - you always want US-letter papersize: On 
Linux you can put an alias in your .bashrc file

alias lilypond='lilypond -dpapersize=letter'

After that, if you run lilypond from the commandline, you don't have to type 
that option manually everytime.

But: Not recommended.

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MT