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author | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2013-10-24 14:26:46 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2013-10-24 14:26:46 +0000 |
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tree | 79ce78c82d028584ff7a00d4f81c9cd443a1489c /Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/man/papersize.5.in | |
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libs/paper: Add libpaper 1.1.24+nmu2
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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/man/papersize.5.in b/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/man/papersize.5.in new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f0f71934890 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/libs/paper/libpaper-1.1.24+nmu2/man/papersize.5.in @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +.TH PAPERSIZE 5 +.SH NAME +.B papersize +\- specify preferred paper size +.SH SYNOPSYS +.B @PAPERCONF@ +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.B papersize +file is used to specify the preferred paper size to use by available +commands and programs generating documents. +.PP +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 +.B CAVEATS +section however). +.SH "PAPER NAMES" +The following names are commonly understood by programs: +.B a3\fP,\fB a4\fP,\fB a5\fP, +.B b5\fP,\fB letter\fP,\fB legal\fP,\fB executive\fP,\fB note\fP +and +.BR 11x17 . +.PP +Additional paper names that one may encounter are: +.B a0\fP,\fB a1\fP,\fB a2\fP,\fB a6\fP,\fB a7\fP,\fB a8\fP,\fB a9\fP,\fB a10\fP, +.B b0\fP,\fB b1\fP,\fB b2\fP,\fB b3\fP,\fB b4\fP,\fB tabloid\fP, +.B statement\fP,\fB note\fP, +.B halfletter\fP,\fB halfexecutive\fP,\fB folio\fP,\fB quarto\fP,\fB ledger\fP, +.B archA\fP,\fB archB\fP,\fB archC\fP,\fB archD\fP,\fB archE\fP,\fB flsa\fP, +.B flse\fP,\fB csheet\fP,\fB dsheet\fP,\fB esheet\fP +and +.BR 10x14 . +.PP +The value of the +.B papersize +file can be overrideen by +looking in order at the +.B @PAPERSIZEVAR@ +environment variable, then at the contents of the file specified by the +.B @PAPERCONFVAR@ +environment variable. If the +.B papersize +file does not exist, programs using the paper library default to using +.B letter +as a fall-back value +.SH CAVEATS +This manual page documents the format of the +.B papersize +file that is read by the +.B 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. +.SH DOCUMENTATION +Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org> +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR paperconf (1) +.br +.BR paperconfig (8) + + |