NAME¶
papersize - specify preferred paper size
SYNOPSYS¶
/etc/papersize
DESCRIPTION¶
The
papersize file is used to specify the preferred paper size to use by
available commands and programs generating documents.
The format of this file is extremely simple: whitespace and anything starting
with `#' is ignored, and the name of the paper is the first string found; the
case in the name of the paper does not import (see
CAVEATS section
however).
PAPER NAMES¶
The following names are commonly understood by programs:
a3, a4,
a5, b5, letter, legal,
executive , note and 11x17.
Additional paper names that one may encounter are:
a0,
a1, a2, a6, a7,
a8 , a9, a10, b0,
b1 , b2, b3, b4,
tabloid , statement, note,
halfletter , halfexecutive, folio,
quarto , ledger, archA,
archB, archC, archD,
archE, flsa, flse,
csheet, dsheet, esheet and
10x14.
The value of the
papersize file can be overrideen by looking in order at
the
PAPERSIZE environment variable, then at the contents of the file
specified by the
PAPERCONF environment variable. If the
papersize file does not exist, programs using the paper library default
to using
letter as a fall-back value
CAVEATS¶
This manual page documents the format of the
papersize file that is read
by the
libpaper library. Some programs that read this file do not yet
use the library and may have trouble ignoring whitespace and comments in the
file; they may also require that the paper names use a specific
capitalization.
DOCUMENTATION¶
Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>
SEE ALSO¶
paperconf(1)
paperconfig(8)