Description of Problem: Formatting a man page with "groff -man somemanpage.1" leads to a postscript file that is formatted for usletter paper, even when the system was installed outside the United States or Canada (e.g., in the UK), where this paper format is unknown and everyone uses the international standard format (ISO A4, see http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): groff-1.16.1-7 Suggested fix: In the file /usr/share/groff/font/devps/DESC change the line paperlength 792000 to paperlength 841890 (paper hight measured in 72000th of an inch changes from 11 inch to 297 mm) and in the file /usr/share/groff/tmac/man.local add the line .mso tmac.a4 unless the installation script knows that the system is configured for North America only, for example because the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains a line matching 'LANG="*_US"' or 'LANG="*_CA"'. Markus Kuhn, University of Cambridge
I leave this for upstream groff sources to implement the right strategies and they seem to keep to "legal" no matter what language code is setup. greetings, Florian La Roche