The 03.07.31 at 18:55, Peter Evans wrote:
I've just about got used to the (semifictional) measurement of monitors by diagonals in inches, and the capacity of printers and scanners in "dpi" -- but really, for OOo to make "letter size" the default page size and to have me adjust its margins in inches is a bit much for me to stomach.
My OO has letter as default size - should be A4 - but shows it in centimeters. In Tools/Options/language Settings/languages/locale, I set "spanish(Spain)". Then, in Tools/Options/Text Document/General You can set the measuring setting to whatever you like. Other measurements are adjustable (they take the defaults from the country, I think), but I don't see paper size: perhaps it is taken from the printer.
Mozilla's in inches, too. Bleurghh.
I don't see where that one is configured; perhaps with thecountry packs (default is US).
Konqueror is set up for A4 and centimetres, but it refuses to send anything to the printer. Could there be a message in that? Is SuSEgnuLinux more ruggedly American than 'Doze, so I must learn to love these quaint, pre-Napoleonic units? Say it ain't so, and that I've just overlooked something simple.
Interestingly, the weather applet also starts showing Pittsburg in imperial units, instead of Berlin - or Madrid ;-) - it should use the settings of the country the whole system was configured for. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson