How to get groff to produce letter size output?

[Bill Davidsen]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> The only documentation I can find says that groff will do this if it
> finds the environment variable PAGE=letter or LC_PAPER=letter.  But I
> get A4 output anyway, even after setting both to "paper".  Any ideas 
> how to get U.S. letter output?
> 
This is probably an obvious thing, but you DID export the symbols, right? So 
groff can see them?

I don't have the problem, even without any options set, so you may have 
something else going on.

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