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Date:      Thu, 19 Dec 2019 18:20:43 +0400
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        gljennjohn@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to use locale(1) to set default paper size?
Message-ID:  <CALH631mdmWSGnqOiwEWOzS88W_y7qT2BWRkjzNJgw8VApawFVw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 6:04 PM Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:07:22 +0400
> Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello hackers@
> >
> > When I launch LibreOffice Writer, the default page size is set to
> "Letter".
> > From what I read on Internets, the canonical way to set default paper
> size
> > is via locale(1). Many sites propose setting LC_PAPER env var to
> > ru_RU.UTF-8 to get "A4" as default size.
> >
> > On FreeBSD, however, running `locale -ck` doesn't show a category for
> paper
> > size and setting LC_PAPER variable doesn't seem to work for LibreOffice.
> >
> > Any ideas what can be done about that?
> >
>
> Click on Format->Page and a window will pop up.  Open the Page tab
> and you can set the size to A4.
>
> LibreOffice should save that it when you click on OK.
>

This sets it for current file only. If I close Writer, open it and then
create a new document, it gets back to "Letter".


> My size was set automatically to A4 because I already had a config
> file from 2008 laying around in my home directory with that setting.
>

IIRC, LibreOffice config is a XML file. Can you find relevant tag and share
it with me, please?


> --
> Gary Jennejohn
>



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