On 29/04/06, Carlos E. R.
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The Saturday 2006-04-29 at 14:33 +0200, Clayton wrote:
If I have any vote, I'd say leave all the applications SUSE provides with the A4 defaults. The US and Canada are the only countries in the world (that I know of) who still use the old non-standard papersizes... although, Canada in it's typical schizophrenic way actually uses both ISO and US paper sizes and standards (I can say that since I'm Canadian :-) )
X'-)
I remember once years ago I tried to photocopy some papers of mine in Ottawa and they would not fit... letter size is a bit smaller than A4. The shop didn't even know what A4 was.
It's time to change... in Spain we also had our own paper sizes not twenty years ago. And by 1900 or roundaabouts we had so many different units of measurement that going metric was a blessing.
Just as an aside, have any of you actually looked at the design of ISO paper? It's quite elegant and very mathmatical. I love the ratio of the sides of all ISO pages... the height divided by the width is always the square root of 2.
I had to study that when I went to college, part of the technical drawing course. The reason of that ratio is simple: two A4 joined by the long side make an A3 exactly, and the same holds for all sizes. Also, if you "zoom" sizes in a copier, sizes and ratios match. Add to that that the standarized line thicknes in the drwaings so that they go from one standard size to the next when you zoom. Clever.
I most be bored to ramble so... X-)
- -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I was taught both Imperial and Metric when I went to school - back in the late 1960's and early to mid 1970's. Because of that I get confused over both sets of measurements :-) I had to order some wood the other day - it sort of relevant in a roundabout way as it was wood for a new shed so that I can clear my workshop out to install a new SuSE server. I had to ask for the outeredge size in imperial and the actual length in metric.... that's how it's sold!!!! -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== Xmas may be over but, PLEASE DON'T drink and drive you'll make it to the next one that way. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR