Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size.
Brian Barker
I do not know about
On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4
On 02/21/2013 10:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move to it.
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They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
active that shrinks to fit page, or similar.
The margin of 0.4 inches work well for
On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move
to it.
Economicsis the key. We do have most things in the grocery store
listing both
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move
to it.
Economicsis the key. We do have most things in
:)
From: steveedmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 17:32
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
columns, so each of the 3
with.
Regards from
Tom :)
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To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 16:48
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
On 02/21/2013 10:59 AM, webmaster
else they co-ordinate with.
Regards from
Tom :)
From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 16:48
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On 02/21/2013
Tom Davies wrote:
Even NASA use feet and inches.
You may recall a Mars mission that failed as it approached Mars due to
unit conversion error. There was also an Air Canada plane that ran out
of fuel mid flight, again due to conversion error.
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At 10:59 21/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
... if we taught our kids from the early ages to use metric ...
... business use letter size paper, letter size storage, letter size
presentation devices to hold their letter size paper, ...
All those things that are based on the letter size paper
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Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:10
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
Tom Davies wrote:
Even NASA use feet and inches.
You may recall a Mars mission that failed as it approached Mars due to unit
On 2013-02-21 12:41 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
Economics had nothing to do with it.
Opinions are...
Reagan was a stick in the mud conservative who didn't want change.
Economics would have meant moving to it, to keep up with the rest of
the world.
Economics meant it
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi:)
I thought the plane one was due to switching to using Windows which ran
auto-updates in mid-flight and then forced a reboot (switching off and then
switching on again). (ie an urban myth)
Regards from
Tom:)
Read up on the Gimli Glider. It actually happened.
Tanstaafl wrote:
Opinions are...
Reagan was a stick in the mud conservative who didn't want change.
Economics would have meant moving to it, to keep up with the rest of
the world.
Economics meant it would have cost the govt a TON of money to change
over.
Arguments can be made for
On 02/21/2013 12:32 PM, steveedmonds wrote:
They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
active that shrinks to fit page, or similar.
for it. [tips hat]
Regards from
Tom :)
From: James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com
To: LibreOffice users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:49
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
Tom Davies wrote
:)
From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:57
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
On 02/21/2013 12:32 PM, steveedmonds wrote
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From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:20 PM
To: James Knott
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4
sizes
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the metric
system in America
Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the
metric system in America. At the time, it made a lot of sense to me
simply because everything metric is in multiples of 10. But, I think
the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just couldn't get the
At 14:20 21/02/2013 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
But, I think the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just
couldn't get the handle of visualizing and conceiving the actual
size of things in metric units. I can visualize and
estimate a foot, a yard, even a mile. I have a harder time
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
BTW, the official definition of a foot is now 30.48 cm.
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From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com
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Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 19:38
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At 14:20 21/02/2013 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
But, I think the biggest bugaboo
At 14:47 21/02/2013 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision. The claim I was
commenting on was that *estimating* (not my word) a yard was easy
Brian Barker wrote:
Or more closely, 40 or precisely 39.37.
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision.
You mean you can't eyeball 39.37 cm? ;-)
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On 2013-02-21 1:54 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
The longer the wait, the greater the long term cost of remaining with an
obsolete system. Regardless, my opinion of Reagan stands. He
demonstrated similar behavior on other issues too. He was an old geezer
who liked things the
How about keeping this thread about the brochure issues and not the pros
and cons of Metric and Imperial [English] measurements.
I started it, and if people want to go on with the pros/cons, maybe you
can start a new thread in the discuss list.
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