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Glenn Morris wrote:

> What size paper are the postscript documents in etc/ supposed to be
> on? [...]
> It seems some of them have a \letterpaper option, some set to US
> letter, some to A4. Are all the non-English ones meant to be on A4 (do
> any countries outside the US use US letter?), and all the English ones
> letter?


In the absence of a clear rule, I implemented the scheme of "English
on letter, translations on A4", which at least makes a kind of sense
to me (though I could see a case for all a4 or all letter).

Sorry letter-using French Canadians, you're outnumbered by a4-using
Frenchmen.