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[Frank <address@hidden>]

Hello all,

By the way, each time I create a new document, it is always Letter with Roman 10pt, 
unless after I deliberately select "Default". I don't know why in your cases, 
it would be A4. Does the OS / environmental variables matter?

Best,
Frank

On 7/28/21, address@hidden wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 27, 2021 11:51 AM, TeXmacs <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 04:36:33PM -0000, address@hidden wrote:
>     > New to TeXmacs, and resident in the US. I would like the default page 
> size to
>     > be US Letter. Right now it comes up as A4 every time I open a new 
> document.
>     > Preferences doesn't seem to mention this.  
>     >
>     > How do I set a default page size? In fact how to I change the default 
> settings
>     > for a new document, like font, pointsize?  
>
>     The easiest "user friendly" way to do this is to create your personal 
> style file
>     or style package with all the customizations that you need.
>
>      From an empty newly created document, just perform all the customizations
>     that you wish to do and then use
>
>          Tools -> Macros -> Extract style file            or
>          Tools -> Macros -> Extract style package
>
>     Save your style file into the directory ~/.TeXmacs/styles
>     (use ~/.TeXmacs/packages for style packages).
>     You may also save the file into the same directory
>     as the document that uses it.
>
>     The advantage of a style package is that it can be combined with
>     other document styles.
>
>     You can next enable your style file/package for any of your documents
>     using Document -> Style (-> Add package).
>
>     A less user friendly alternative is to write some Scheme code that
>     does your customizations when opening a new file.
>
>     Best wishes, --Joris
>
> OK, thanks! I will use your suggestions to arrive at a solution.