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Added a note to groff regarding A4 vs letter

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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
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3<sect2>
4<title>Installation of Groff</title>
5
6<para>Groff expects an enviornment variable PAGE to contain the default paper size.
7For those in the United States, the text below is appropriate. For those who's default
8paper size is the larger "A4", you may safely change the value used when we configure
9the Groff package:</para>
10
11<para><screen><userinput>PAGE=letter ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
12
13<para>Compile the package:</para>
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15<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
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17<para>And install it:</para>
18
19<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
20
21<para>Some documentation programs, such as <userinput>xman</userinput>,
22will not work work properly without the following symlinks:</para>
23
24<para><screen><userinput>ln -s soelim /usr/bin/zsoelim
25ln -s eqn /usr/bin/geqn
26ln -s tbl /usr/bin/gtbl</userinput></screen></para>
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28</sect2>
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