and yet, we digress. even the imperialists can't agree!
--- On Tue, 7/29/08, joseph harris <smilepoet at vfemail.net> wrote: > From: joseph harris <smilepoet at vfemail.net> > Subject: Re: [scribus] oh, my; louis, sacre bleu! > To: migueltrucha at yahoo.com, "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at > lists.scribus.info> > Date: Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 4:08 AM > From: "mike" > > >i am more confused than EVER after reading: > > > > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html > > > > mike > > > > Proof that all simple systems are doomed to complexity. > But you > do have to make things like envelopes, and these require > different paper sizes to make a bit of room and edges to > gum > things up. And so on. > > And it looks as though the piece, despite bearing the UK > suffix, > is written by an American; 'meter', Sir, meter? > The word is > Metre. And the first diagram could have been a lot clearer > [i.e. > the two A4 sheets could each have had 2 and root 2, rather > than > looking like a break in the rule!]. > > It mentions the A B and C ranges, though I thought the > French > description added a D range. Anyhow, I struggle to see a > mathematical relationship between the A, B and C size, as > though > they were established by trial and error... > > Joseph Harris [Oh, and the Japanese have already broken > rank ;-)]
