Hi Damian, At 2023-07-10T16:21:10+1000, Damian McGuckin wrote: > Here is the laser paragraph from the Usage section of my User Guide > > All of those command line examples in this section > assume the default paper size. If one wants this to > be a specific size, say A4, then the two options > -dpaper=a4 and -P-pa4 should be passed to the groff > wrapper. > > I would really like to omit -P-pa4 in the name of simplicity.
I tried in an earlier message[1] to cover the problems that need to be solved to achieve this simplicity in a fully general way. > When I run tests with this omitted,m every still seems to work. But > then I only send to -Tpdf or laser printers with either a single bin > or two bins which are identical. That's fine and I'm glad to hear it--it's just not general. > I may start using -Thtml shortly if I want to be able to get Grammarly > to check my English. Expect some exciting problems. Maybe you can help me fix them. ;-) > Note that I did not define PAGE when I built 1.22.4. I ended up > with a default of letter > > Note that my > > /etc/papersize > > says a4. > > I believe my DNS thinks I live in Australia and we use metric > papersizes, i.e. A4. We use metric everything! We won't go there!. What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like? I think it our GROFF_PAGE m4 macro was written back in the days when hosts had static IP addresses and did their own name resolution and/or lived on networks that had names even if they weren't resolved by bind(8). (Once upon a time, people hand-edited /etc/hosts and /etc/networks files...) If your resolv.conf looks like mine... $ cat /etc/resolv.conf # Generated by NetworkManager nameserver 192.168.1.1 nameserver 8.8.8.8 ...then GROFF_PAGE isn't going to be able to deduce anything about your host's geographical location, and it will fall back to "letter".[2] But, if you added the line search esi.com.au to it, I predict it will select ISO A4 paper format instead. Regards, Branden [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-07/msg00076.html [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/m4/groff.m4?h=1.23.0#n1028
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