Re: Selecting Papersize

[Damian McGuckin]

Thanks for your reply.

On Sun, 9 Jul 2023, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:

>  When "groff" is configured, the variable "PAGE" is (should be) set to
> the default paper format for the default printer.

So, when I build groff 1.23.0, I should make sure that PAGE is set to A4.

>  So the variable "paper" in "papersize.tmac" should have the same
> value as "$PAGE".
>
>  With, for example, this addition to "tmac/troffrc" before reading the
> "papersize.tmac":
>
> .if t \{\
> .  do if !d paper .do ds paper A4\" use $(PAGE) to configure
> .\}

OK.

The big question is whether I really need to pass '-P-pa4' to groff so 
that it can hand it off to the postprocessor., say grops/gropdf. Or
can the postprocessor get the information it needs from its input?

Thanks - Damian

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