PAPERSIZE(E)                                         PAPERSIZE(E)



NAME
       papersize - specify preferred paper size

SYNOPSYS
       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  how-
       ever).

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.

       If  the  papersize file does not exist, programs using the
       paper library default to  using  paper  specified  by  the
       PAPERCONF  environment  variable  or  letter paper if this
       variable is not set.

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(f)
       paperconfig(g)





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