Change Document Format from Letter to A4

[Patrick Steiner]

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