Kaixo! On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:50:45AM -0400, Henry Spencer wrote:
> > > > ...I'd like to warmly encourage people in North America to start > > > > using A4 paper. > > > Why would we? > > > > For the exact same reason you should switch to the metric system... > > Unfortunately, there isn't the same incentive. Paper size is basically > arbitrary; The size, yes, but the ratio between the different sizes is not. It is a *very* nice feature, I use it all the time to print two pages into a single paper sheet, and then saving in paper costs. > (And of course, even the much greater advantages of the metric system > haven't yet sold the US on switching to it...) IMHO that is done in purpose for market pretectionnism, maybe the US government thinks that way a bad US products will be favoured over a better foreing one. > It might actually be easier to sell a proposal that *everybody* switch to > a set of sizes based on PA4. As PA4 doesn't have the nice property of the geometric relationship between paper sizes there is no chance at all any country currently using A4 will switch to it. -- Ki �a vos v�ye b�n, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
