At 04:37 PM 4/25/2002 -0400, Joseph B. Reid wrote: >If you have a page layout that fits 5.5 by 8.5 it can't be enlarged to fit >8.5 by 11. If you have a page layout that fits 148 by 210 it can be >enlarged to a perfect fit with 210 by 297.
This is, of course, correct. But it simply does not matter in the great majority of uses of paper by the great majority of users. Certainly not enough to, in and of itself, justify switching the whole USA to a different set of paper sizes. I want to emphasize, however, that I am not against these "metric" size papers. I am only trying to say they are not really "better" (with the above minor exception), they are NOT part of the SI system, and I do not think that pushing metric-sized paper is necessarily a good use of limited pro-metrication resources. Where we can reasonably change, fine. Where we cannot, let's tilt at taller windmills. Jim Elwell Electrical Engineer Industrial manufacturing manager Salt Lake City, Utah, USA www.qsicorp.com
