Bug 144043
Summary: | groff silently defaults page length to A4 without general way to reconfigure it | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michal Jaegermann <michal> | ||||
Component: | groff | Assignee: | Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> | ||||
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Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 3 | ||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
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Last Closed: | 2006-02-01 13:24:39 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Michal Jaegermann
2005-01-04 00:36:22 UTC
Created attachment 109304 [details]
sample troff code which prints too high on a letter paper
This bug not only sits as NEW for the last nine months but is also present in the current groff-1.18.1.1-5 from development series. It seems that "guessing" should be really a default with an explicit size specification as an override. TROFF command in /etc/man.config from man-1.5p-6 (development too) also does not provide a workaround but that should not be needed with groff honouring a locale information. Groff looks for paper size in /etc/papersize file, just run "echo letter > /etc/papersize" and it should be ok. > Groff looks for paper size in /etc/papersize file
Documentation is very far from that claim. 'man groff' does not mention
anything of that sort. In 'info groff', if one knows what to look for, it
is possible to find:
Alternatively, STRING can be a file name (e.g. `/etc/papersize');
in a format description of DESC files. So this STRING can be anything else
or may not show up at all.
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