On Saturday 11 February 2006 21:45, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > I'm still trying to print man pages on US Letter paper without success. > This is the same problem as getting "groff -Tps ..." to emit output fo > letter size paper, which doesn't seem to be so easy to do. And so, I > have been led to locales, which seem to be very useful and very > undocumented. Can anyone point me to documentation on the following: > > Questions > > (1) How is the locale set? It's easy to read it: just type "$ locale". > (2) How does the locale relate to the environment variables LC_*? > (3) How does the locale control the paper size? "$ locale" prints out a > value for LC_PAPER, but "man 7 locale" doesn't refer to it. > > BTW: I was advised to "$ echo letter > /etc/papersize", to get groff to > emit the right kind of output. It doesn't work. > > Also have been advised to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n but it's not clear > just what to put into it. > This may be an over-simplistic view, but have you tried viewing the man page in konqueror, then printing from there? That would print with your default printer settings. Anne
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