On 06:30 07 Mar 2002, José Romildo Malaquias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 11:41:46AM +0100, Rick van der Linde wrote: | > >I want to print some manuals, but the default formatting I am getting | > >is for letter paper and I am using A4 paper. I am doing: | > > $ man -t fvwm2 | lpr | > >to print the fvwm2 manual, for example. What should I do to get | > >A4 paper formatting? | > | > I can't tell you exactly what to do. But I know you'll need | > to change an/some entries in your /etc/printcap file. | > | > Probably you'll be able to change settings in printconf | > too. It will allow you to choose the default paper size. | | My printer is already configured for A4 paper printing. | | The problem is the generation of the PostScript file in A4 | by groff, which is called by man as a consequence of the -t | option. | | Making some research, I have found the | /usr/share/doc/groff-1.17.2/README.A4 file with instructions | on how to achieve that.
We do this a different way: we use nroff for the formatting (implicitly by using the output of the "man" command) and feed it to a2ps, using its A4 options. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ penetration resistance is always a bonus. - Jody Levine _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
