NAME

       papersize - specify preferred paper size

SYNOPSYS

       /etc/papersize

DESCRIPTION

       The  papersize file is used to specify the preferred paper size to use by available commands and programs
       generating documents.

       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
       CAVEATS section however).

PAPER NAMES

       The following names are commonly understood by programs: a3, a4, a5, b5, letter, legal,  executive,  note
       and 11x17.

       Additional  paper  names that one may encounter are: a0, a1, a2, a6, a7, a8, a9, a10, b0, b1, b2, b3, b4,
       tabloid, statement, note, halfletter, halfexecutive, folio, quarto, ledger, archA, archB,  archC,  archD,
       archE, flsa, flse, csheet, dsheet, esheet and 10x14.

       The  value  of  the  papersize  file  can  be overrideen by looking in order at the PAPERSIZE environment
       variable, then at the contents of the file specified by  the  PAPERCONF  environment  variable.   If  the
       papersize  file  does  not exist, programs using the paper library default to using letter as a fall-back
       value

CAVEATS

       This manual page documents the format of the papersize file that is read by the 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.

DOCUMENTATION

       Yves Arrouye <arrouye@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       paperconf(1)
       paperconfig(8)

                                                                                                    PAPERSIZE(5)