Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 118739
Inconsistent default paper sizes in troff and grops
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:38 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: In my installation in the USA, "troff -Tps" generates DVI output formatted for "letter" paper size, but /usr/share/groff/1.18.1/font/devps/DESC has a default paper size of "a4". The result is that the PostScript output from 'groff' is shifted upward about 0.6" on the paper, causing header lines to disappear. Viewing the intermediate output with 'xditview' shows that the missing lines are indeed present. The fault can be seen most easily with "man -t", but is by no means unique to manpages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): groff-1.18.1-29 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "man -t ls | ggv -" Actual Results: The header line: LS(1) FSF LS(1) will not be shown, and there is excess margin at the bottom of the page. Additional info: The very simple fix is to execute: echo "letter" >/etc/papersize to change the paper size for 'grops', after which all is well. The installation should have made the paper size default consistent for all parts of the pipeline run by 'groff'.
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Problem is still here. Opened in fc5.
The default setting of paper size is A4, it'll be divergence from the upstream project.