[tlug] A4 not letter

[<stephen@example.com>]

Darren Cook writes:

 > OpenOffice and Adobe Acrobat insist on defaulting to "Letter" paper,
 > instead of A4. Should I be hunting for settings in these applications,
 > or something more central? I don't see page size mentioned when I do a
 > printenv.

I don't think it's POSIX, but some applications will obey the LC_PAPER
environment variable.  (Or some name like that, and I don't know what
the syntax is---I bet LC_PAPER=a4 will work if it's going to work at
all, though.)

Steve