2001-07-21 Can you explain further what you are writing here? Are you saying that the Atlanta Constitution is reducing some dimension from 54 inches to 50 inches? A page of the Cleveland Plain dealer is 320 mm (w) x 560 mm (h). 54 inches comes out to 1372 mm. I guess I'm not seeing what the 54 or 50 inches is referring to. Also, 1.27 m is not that logical. The more logical would be 1.25 m. The last digit should always be a 0 or a 5. Also, newspaper sizes world-wide, where metric is used might follow the ISO "A" or "B" series. A1 would be 595 mm x 841 mm, A2 would be 420 mm x 595 mm and A3 would be 297 mm x 420 mm. It seems the Plain Dealer falls between the two. The closest in the "B" series is B2, which is 515 mm x 364 mm. The "B" series uses 1.5 m² as the base for B0, where as A0 is 1.0 m². It would be interesting to note what the newspaper dimensions in metric countries is. Any idea, anyone? John Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt frei zu sein. There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely believe they are free! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Greg & Tammy Booth Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "US Metric Assn." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, 2001-07-21 23:00 Subject: [USMA:14529] John Walter's explanation that "(size)change will make paper more comfortable" > To Editors of The Atlanta Constitution: > > Mr. Walter explains that the movement to the "50-inch web" size began in > Toronto about a decade ago. Toronto, Ontario is in Canada, which has openly > joined the rest of the world as a metric country. This leaves just the > United States, of the industrialized world, which seems to think and act > like it is not using metric. > > That 50-inch web size calculates to a very logical 1.27 meters (or 127 > centimeters or 1270 millimeters) sheet size. The old 54-inch was an > obviously non-metric size of 1.403858 meters. > > Americans think that they are not using the International System of Units > (SI), the metric system. All of our cars are metric with translations into > the archaic measures Americans still use. Look at the measures on all > grocery store items prepackaged by the manufacturer which also show grams > or milliliters. > > Even Britain has changed to metric. America, finish it now! > > Norman Werling (retired & age 65) > 1240 Hunters Drive > Stone Mountain, GA 30083 > 404-292-9328 (home) > >
