Jim Allan wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
By the way, it's not animosity about the metric system per se, but an
argument for useful support of Imperial measurements,
There is no such thing. The Imperial system has been obsolete since 1995.
I use OpenOffice.org professionally in Canada in a company which among
other things does a lot of printing for clients. Most paper sizes
available and used are the standard imperial paper sizes: letter size,
legal size, and ledger size. I believe this is also true in the USA.
Those are US paper sizes, not "Imperial". There never were any
"Imperial" paper sizes. (There used to be English non-Metric paper
sizes, but they were not the same as the US sizes, and they weren't part
of the Imperial system, anyway -- which is probably one reason that
Canada uses US paper sizes.) And the US does not and never did use the
Imperial system, which did not even come into being until several
generations after the Revolution.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear that ultimate power inevitably
corrupts."
-- James D. Barber (1930-2004)
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