On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:32:35PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > > As for the actual physical paper format (as opposed to PDF document > > > layout), I'd like to warmly encourage people in North America to start > > > using A4 paper. > > > > Why would we? > > Because you will eventually, so you might as well do it now to > minimise suffering. Well, I don't know how true that is for A4 paper, > but that's a generic reason for accepting a good standard.
But the current standard is good enough that there's no incentive to switch. It's like the metric system; Markus asks how many cubic feet to the gallon, and my answer is who cares? Anybody who really cares how many cubic feet to the gallon there are, already uses metric. Soda comes in mixed Imperial/metric units (8 oz., 16 oz., 1 l, 2 l, 3 l), a situation worse than just using either to which someone like Markus somewhere is to blame, and I have no problem. I use three sets of Imperial measurements on a regular basis: time, length and liquid volume, and one of them metric doesn't change. To go from inches/feet/miles and ounces/gallons to meters and liters doesn't save me enough to worry about it, and if I need the metric system for a problem, I know where to find it. The paper situation is even worse. I see no benefits accruing to me from switching paper sizes; and I don't want to switch out all my notebooks or end up mixing letter sized and A4 sized paper. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It's not a habit; it's cool; I feel alive. If you don't have it you're on the other side." - K's Choice (probably referring to the Internet) -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
