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→Setting paper size
Plain TeX and LaTeX were primarily developed in the US. So, they default to letter paper, which is the standard paper size in the US. ConTeXt was developed in the Netherlands. So, it defaults to A4 paper, which is the standard paper size in Europe (and almost everywhere else in the world).
Changing paper size is easy. To get , for letter paper, use:<ref>The syntax used here only works with ConTeXt versions newer than February 2011. In earlier versionsBefore that, you had to use
<texcode>\setuppapersize[letter][letter]</texcode>
to get letter sized paper. You may wonder why we need to repeat the paper size twice. In most cases, these are the same. You only need to use different arguments if you want to print on a bigger paper and trim it later (see the section on print size for details).
</ref>:
<texcode>\setuppapersize[letter]</texcode>
<texcode>\setuppapersize[A4]</texcode>
== Pre-defined paper sizes ==
