On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:31:45AM +0800, Ridzwan Abdullah wrote: > I have just installed a Debian 3.0 system and have discovered a > perculiar thing. Whenever I print a manual page using the 'man -t > subject | lpr' command I always get a printout fomatted for a US > letter sized page although my /etc/papersize setting is set to A4 > and my printcap also specifies A4 size paper. During installation, > I have always consistently specified A4 size whenever applicable > and at no time specified US-Letter size. Does troff (used by the -t > option) defaults to US-Letter or is there any other configuration > files that I have missed?
troff in Debian 3.0 should honour /etc/papersize. If you have gs installed, try 'man -t <subject> | gs -sDEVICE=bbox -'. For A4, the last two numbers on the BoundingBox lines should be close to 540 and 800; for Letter they should be close to 540 and 750. If that test passes, then you should probably look at your printing configuration. > BTW, I am using a postscript printer and use LPRng and apsfilter on > my system. Although the manual page for lpr states that the -t > option is obsoleted, I find its the only way I can get a nicely > formatted printout of a man page - other methods results in a badly > formatted one using the awful fixed courier font. The -t option to lpr has pretty much nothing to do with the -t option to man. The former specifies what lpr takes as input, while the latter makes man call groff in a different way. The -t option to man isn't obsolete. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
