latex letter paper

As a user, to configure LaTeX to default to letter paper size (instead of A4), run the command:

# texconfig paper letter

Paper size can also be respecified during the DVI to PDF conversion, if not using pdfLaTeX:

# latex mydoc.tex && latex mydoc.tex
# dvipdfmx -p letter mydoc.dvi

This is useful for third-party document classes, such as acm_proc_article-sp.cls, which do not have a letterpaper option, but are intended for letter paper size.