Greg,
Who knows, soon that dinosaur may reach retirement age anyway and if the
other administrator takes over, the inches can be dealt with. Maybe this man
has lumber instead of brains in his head.
I would still use metric margins and measures if I had to use 11 or 12 inch
paper.12 inch paper was a European size, and I used that for the time being.
As John states, those who use ISO paper sizes do not need to know the
dimensions. I do not need to know the formula used for A0, just as I do not
need to know the definition of the meter when I measure something. Some
ifp goons really claim that users of metric must know such things! I repeat:
the coming of new printer technology lead to a massive reversal to ISO
paper sizes in Europe.
Now I am waiting and longing for the day when I can stop using the dpi.
Then I will drop it as a hot coal.
Computers can force the most implacable enemies of ifp to use it. I always
have asked myself if this was all part of a giant anti-metric plot: use
computer technology (hard and software) to corrupt metric countries so that
the
metric system will collapse sooner or later. And I feared during the
eighties that
they might succeed and that we would one day go USC: Hannibal ante portas!
I could never understand why such futuristic technology was based on
medieval units. In that period the computer center of Nijmegen University
had
engineering software that only allowed the use of ifp. Anyone who wanted to
have his
designs processed in that center, had to convert all his data to inches!
Han
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregory Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: vrijdag 8 december 2000 20:28
Subject: Re: [USMA:9610] RE: Paper sizes
> Han, et al.
>
> My wife has been asking the network administrator at her high school to
set the computers' default measurement to metric. She is teaching typing and
refuses to use "1-inch" margins on "8� x 11-inch" paper and would rather the
students set them to 2.5 cm on 21.5 x 28 cm paper.
>
> The response she got was this (I am paraphrasing):
> 'The paper is still in inches so we're not changing the settings on the
computers. When the paper changes, we'll change. Lumber uses inches, too.'
>
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