Thanks for the input Dan, and for your encouragement for me to broaden
and develop my intelligence. The point you are missing here is that I
and many others prefer to work in inches - not that we are incapable of
thinking outside some prescribed boundary. In every other area of my
life I use inch measurements. OpenOffice developers have seen fit to
include inches as an option, it seems reasonable therefore that
potential users of inches should have minor irritations addressed. If
other wordprocessors permit extended decimal point use, then why
shouldn't the world's greatest?
Dan Lewis wrote:
I am from the USA and use "cm" all the time with OOo. If you stop and
think abouit it, all you see on the screen is a bunch of numbers in the
ruler. OOo creates the proper dimensions for the page and margin that you
have set. (I use letter size and portrait.) So all you are doing is making
changes according to the rulers at the top and perhaps the left of your page.
It is not as difficult as you might think to adjust using a different system
of measure. You learn "metric" measuring the same way you learned the
measuring system you are use to: you use it. Measuring is just a matter of
comparing a length against some numbers on a ruler. If you want a more
accurate reading, you use a smaller scale. That is all. That is not all that
hard to do regardless of what system you are using. Try it, you might even
like it.
Dan
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