Opened 20 years ago

Closed 20 years ago

Last modified 19 years ago

#919 closed defect (fixed)

groff in ch6 always uses prefix PAGE=letter

Reported by: brar@… Owned by: alfs-log@…
Priority: lowest Milestone:
Component: Profiles (LFS) Version: SVN
Severity: minor Keywords:
Cc:

Description (last modified by Thomas)

The book (ch6/groff) tells us: Groff expects the environment variable PAGE to contain the default paper size. For those in the United States, the command below is appropriate. If you live elsewhere, you may want to change PAGE=letter to PAGE=A4.

I think this should be a configureable option for nALFS-Profiles. currently it is: <configure>

<prefix>PAGE=letter</prefix> <param>--prefix=/usr</param>

</configure>

I'd prefer: <configure>

<prefix>PAGE=&paper_size;</prefix> <param>--prefix=/usr</param>

</configure>

and something like: <!-- Groff expects the environment variable PAGE to contain the default paper size.

For those in the United States, this would be 'letter'. If you live elsewhere, it could also be 'A4'. -->

<!ENTITY paper_size "A4">

in config/general.ent

This would make us "Old-Europeans" find and edit this option without going through the whole xml-sources.

Regards, Brar

Change History (3)

comment:1 by Thomas, 20 years ago

Status: newassigned

Will add this to both SVN and upcoming 6.0 profiles here in a few minutes.

comment:2 by Thomas, 20 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Commited. Thanks for the report.

comment:3 by Thomas, 19 years ago

Component: LFS ProfilesLFS Tasks
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