The authors of the 18th century's pre-revolutionary Encyclopedie (Diderot
cs) also covered weights and measures and they did not know how things would
develop in the future. They hoped for unification. But I saw some tables of
length and weight in the Encyclopedie and they used British units as
I have been away for the last two days as I made a mini cruise to Newcastle
on a large cruise ferry from DFDS, a Danish shipping company that operates a
service between IJmuiden (at the harbour's mouth of Amsterdam) and
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Amsterdam is about 25 km inland and ships have to go
John makes 1 good point about selling
software/unpacked goods like raw materials.
If you get a Windows XP/MS Office with inches as
default unit of measurement, then it is FFU item.
Same applies for all Hollywod movies.
As for raw materials like wood/unprocessed oranges,
it depends on whether
2002-05-12
One thing we missed when bringing up the bible and measurements. There is
one passage in there, somewhere in the old Testament, where God commands the
Israelites to have an honest set of weights and measures. If I remember
correctly, the examples given were those in use in by the
Hi Terry
In Adobe Acrobat ver 4.05, you can go to
File-Preferences-General and set Page Units
to millimeters, and it changes to mm.
Madan
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Date: Sun, 12 May 2002
2002-05-12
Did you try and spend any Euros in the shops? What was your experience with
using Euros in the UK?
John
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Sent: Sunday, 2002-05-12 05:40
Subject: [USMA:20008] Made a
does someone know how I can set Word to metric typography istead of
retarded Point?
standard 12 pt would be 4,25 mm!
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2002-05-12
When you use the term ifp, what version of ifp are you referring to?
There is no standard ifp, there are many versions. If you are going to use
this term, can you be more specific as to which version you are referring
to? We want to be precise.
John
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2002-05-12
You can go to the preferences and pick millimetres. The default may be
inches when it is downloaded from an English language server. Some
software, Microsoft products included, will set their defaults to metric
when sold in non-English countries. It is funny that Microsoft, and
Of Han Maenen
The buses that brought people from the terminal in
Tynemouth to Newcastle and back were new, but a sign
above to driver told us the height of the bus: 14' 6''.
This is a very pertinent point. There is an asymmetry in the regulations
about the problem of clearance heights. You need
ifp = inch/foot/pound
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: [USMA:20016] Re: Some of you might find this interesting
2002-05-12
When you use the term ifp, what version of
The best about SI and Euro
it is supernational thus makes it neutral for everyone!
I suppose many other countries will introduce within the next 20 years
either the US$ or the as currency, there is actually now way out in global
economy!
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From: kilopascal [EMAIL
Of M R
In Adobe Acrobat ver 4.05, you can go to
File-Preferences-General and set Page Units
to millimeters, and it changes to mm.
Interesting. Unfortunately, the 'File' menu that I see for Adobe belongs
to Internet Explorer. So am I stuck?
--
Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
[EMAIL
You need to launch Acrobat independently from Start Menu, as opposed to
launching it from within Internet Explorer. There's an MS term for this
(OLE, COM, etc) though I forget which.
Nat
Of M R
In Adobe Acrobat ver 4.05, you can go to
File-Preferences-General and set Page Units
to
2002-05-12
OK, So what if a British lorry driver is approaching a bridge in France and
the height of the bridge is given in metres only? His vehicle displays only
the height in feet and inches. Not knowing for sure, he takes the chance
anyway and tries to pass under it, only to find out too
2002-05-12
That part I understood. My point was that there are multiple meanings to
ifp. Does ifp refer to the US customary version, the US engineering
version, the UK imperial version , UK engineering, which? The pound can be
a unit of mass, or weight. The foot can be a survey foot or an
Of kilopascal
OK, So what if a British lorry driver is approaching
a bridge in France and the height of the bridge is given
in metres only? His vehicle displays only the height in
feet and inches. Not knowing for sure, he takes the chance
anyway and tries to pass under it, only to find out too
Of Nat Hager III
You need to launch Acrobat independently from Start Menu,
Thanks to everybody who helped. It certainly was not clear to me how to
do it, especially since I use their setting which is to run it in IE. I
sent a message to adobe on their feedback form on this topic. It really
2002-05-12
Just wait until you get the bill! LOL!
I think Adobe could do better by either choosing the units used in the
Regional Settings of Windows, if the reader is installed on a Windows
system, or not displaying units at all. The only time it is necessary to
know what the page size is,
The only problem with taking the Windows default, is that it doesn't give
you a choice between millimeters and centimeters. I very much prefer
millimeters for any sort of page layout, and the default seems to give
centimeters. So I use the individual preferences in Word, or in this case
Kilopascal wrote in USMA 20011:
One thing we missed when bringing up the bible and measurements. There is
one passage in there, somewhere in the old Testament, where God commands the
Israelites to have an honest set of weights and measures. If I remember
correctly, the examples given were
I Microsoft Word, Go to Tools - Options, then click the
General Tab!! There is a drop-down box in the bottom, left-hand corner of
the Options Dialog box which you can use tochange the measurements to
metric!!
Regards,
Steve.
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In a message dated 2002-05-12 15:13:33 Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I Microsoft Word, Go to Tools - Options, then click the General Tab!! There is a drop-down box in the bottom, left-hand corner of the Options Dialog box which you can use to change the measurements to
It works globally for me with that method.
Have you set the regional settings in the control panel? There is a
'metric' option there too.
--
Terry Simpson
Human Factors Consultant
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.connected-systems.com
Phone: +44 7850 511794
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From: [EMAIL
Carleton wrote:
That works for the document you are in. How do you set the TABS to
metric, globally?
As long as you close windows normally after you have done that, it applies
globally. Tools | Options does, of course, require that some document or
other be open at the time you use it.
I've
Oops.
That should be as long as you close Word normally.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Behalf Of Bill Potts
Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 18:53
To: U.S. Metric Association
On the ship euros and pounds could be used and there I used the euro. As I
did not want to run into problems in Britain I took pounds with me. In the
'Life' exposition in Newcastle payment could only be made in pounds. I could
not see euros anywhere in Newcastle. In fact, I see no point in
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