Re: Change Document Format from Letter to A4

[Patrick Steiner <patrick.steiner@xxxxxx>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 07:56, Patrick Steiner wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > thanks for your help here is my output
> >
> > $ locale LC_PAPER
> > 279
> > 216
> > UTF-8
> >
> > is this correct?
>
> That's the same as my default of letter size.  I believe those are the 
> millimeter sizes of letter paper.
setting:
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
export LC_PAPER

into my .bashrc did the job.

now its the correct output:

$ locale LC_PAPER
297
210
UTF-8

many thanks
 patrick