Hi all,

On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 13:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> A recent post on the list indicated that some
> installations default to letter size paper format, which one canconsider
> a bad idea but let's put that aside.

Yeah, I added that code back in April 2023. I argued that the layout of
a document shouldn't depend on what system it's compiled on, but the
rest of the TeX Live team disagreed, and it does kinda make sense to be
consistent with the rest of the formats.

> For instance we can make context run 25 percent slower when the main
> language is us-english

> At the meeting we might also decide to default to Canadian English
> patterns or those used in GB.

Well, a good start might be to make the following document work :)

    \setupcolours[textcolour=grey]

    \startTEXpage
        Hello, world!
    \stopTEXpage

On Tue, 2025-04-01 at 22:52 +0100, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
> > tariffs:
> Perhaps add a 5% orange tint to images printed on US Letter sized pages?

Haha, please no; there are *dozens* of us Canadian ConTeXt users.

Thanks,
-- Max
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