Hi :) Even NASA use feet and inches. How many feet left to dock. Even their plans to go to the moon go by feet. I wonder if half the computers they use are purely to convert between feet and miles and another half to convert to the metric systems used by everyone 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 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes > >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 >>>>> "everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size". >>>>> >>>>> Brian Barker >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> I do not know about the rest of the world. >>>> I knew that Europe tend to use A4. >>>> >>>> Why USA and Canada uses "letter size" when the rest use A4, who knows. >>>> >>> >>> Here is a short history on it: >>> >>> http://www.serif.com/blog/a-quick-history-on-a4-and-letter-paper-sizes/ >>> >>> Canada follows the US for obvious reasons. IMO, I would rather follow with >>> the A4 and metric sizes, we should all be following the metric sizing. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Marc >>> >> >> The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time. We are using >> more metric in manufacturing, but for use in the home or business, people >> grew up learning the "English" system of feet/inches, pounds/ounces, >> cup/gallon, instead of all of the base-ten metric measurements. >> >> Yes, if we taught our kids from the early ages to use metric along with what >> we use now, maybe we can get them to be more use to the metric system so we >> can move to it someday as an equal to our current system. Of course, >> business use letter size paper, letter size storage, letter size >> presentation devices to hold their letter size paper, and the list goes on >> and on. All those things that are based on the letter size paper and cannot >> fit the A4 size paper will have to be replaced so they can fit both sizes - >> as a standard size - before business will be thinking about using A4 >> regularly. > The thing that matters most in the USA is economics. When it becomes more >economical to use the metric system, we will change very rapidly. In the past, >we produced soft drinks in the quart size. When the demand for packaging them >in liters for sale overseas, two different measuring systems increased their >costs. So, large soft drink containers were produced exclusively in liters >sizes to save money. > I suppose the equivalent for printers is this: when it becomes cheaper to >make a printer which will print A4 (and thus letter size with a small added >border) and the demand is high enough, printers will rather quickly change to >using A4 as the standard size. > All of this is my personal opinion, of course. > >--Dan > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
