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In article <1992Dec7.110448.18834@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> jr@sade.ka.sub.org  
(Jochen Richter) writes:
> Hi,
> 
> I use A4 as my global papersize.
> Whenever I print a manpage using man -t or the ptroff command the pages do  
> not print properly. When I set the papersize to LETTER it works. In case I  
> do not want to switch the papersize all the time there are 2 questions:
> 
> 1. For which application can I set the papersize default that ptroff uses  
> this one instead of the global one?

Ptroff is a shell script which calls pscat. Pscat is the weird program.
It reads the defaults database, but apparently does so for the globals
only. It seems not to know "private" defaults, at least I didn't find them.

> 2. What default can I set to format the manpages in A4 and then print it  
> in A4?

Call ptroff with the additional option "-l 11in". This is given through
to pscat and overrides the defaults. I use
	ptroff -man -t -l 11in  xxx.1 | lpr
for man pages. This works fine even if you did a "dwrite -g NXPaperType A4".

	Detlev
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