Kaixo! On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:07:34PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:30:47PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > But there is! Firstly, if you cut a piece of A4 paper into two halves, > > each has the same proportions as A4. Secondly, a piece of An paper has > > area 1/2**n of a square metre. Standard photocopier paper weighs 80 > > grams a square metre, so a piece of A4 weights 5 g, and airmail > > postage rates go in steps of 5 g or 10 g ... > > These are just novelties to most people; I don't remember the last time I made > a photocopy, and when I do, I don't mind that it doesn't scale perfectly.
Do you have a printer then? Do you happen to print works of more than a handful of pages? In such case it may be very convenient to print two pages in one sheet; then you can just cut the sheets in the middle and have a nice small book. If you use paper dimensions that don't have the nice sqrt(2) ratio then it's not that easy, you can't just cut the sheets in the middle, you have to do extra cutting work, or you can end with an horrendous layout with even pages being larger than odd ones (or the opposite). What about if you want to fit *four* pages into one sheet? Then doing that with non standard paper sizes will sure be a real pain > It's probably very useful for some people, but not most, and it's the > majority that'll keep everyone from switching. No. As told before and as history has shown us, what makes the switch or not are the government decisions. It only requires the US government to decide that it will use internationm standard paper sizes and a few years the whole country will had switched. -- Ki ça vos våye bén, 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/
