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PAPER

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: January 2024
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NAME

paper- print paper size information

SYNOPSIS

paper [,OPTION/...] [,PAPER/...,-all/]

DESCRIPTION

Print paper size information.

--all: show information about all known paper sizes
--no-size: do not show paper sizes (width followed by height)
--unit UNIT: unit in which to show sizes [pt, mm, in; default: natural units]
--help: display this help message and exit
--version: display version information and exit

paper prints information about the given paper sizes, which can include the standard form of its name, its width and height. The output is designed to be both huma- and machin-readable. The name is matched cas-insensitively, and ignoring spaces.

If neither a paper size nor the --all option is given, the current paper size is used.

The current paper size is obtained by looking in order at the following values until a no-empty value is found. If no paper size is configured, paper exits with an error.

[bu]: The PAPERSIZE environment variable
[bu]: The user's default paper size in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/papersize
[bu]: The current locale's default paper size (if supported by the system)
[bu]: The system default paper size in /etc/papersize
[bu]: The first paper size in the system list
[bu]: The first paper size in the user's list

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

PAPERSIZE: Paper size to use.

FILES

/etc/papersize: System default paper size.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/papersize: User's default paper size.

AUTHOR

Written by Reuben Thomas.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs at https://github.com/rrthomas/libpaper

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013-2022 Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>. paper comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of paper under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3, or, at your option, any later version.See <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.