David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > Funnily enough, I'd never even thought about page numbering in > connection with man pages. But I notice now that the page contents > of my Letter PDF and Debian's A4 version are identical, and the > footers on the A4 are very high, so I'm guessing that the document > was originally set for Letter paper, with well-balanced margins, > and the A4 version just had more white space added at the bottom.
A4 paper is a little longer than LTR but also slightly narrower. So if I'm trying to print the same content on both I use the width of A4 and the length of LTR to set the margins. (210 x 297 A4, 215.9 x 279.4 LTR)
