Dear Chris and All, Some time ago, I went to buy some briefcases to transport display materials from Australia to China. I bought one and then found that it was slightly under A3 in in its interior dimensions in short its size would not allow me to place two pieces of A4 material side by side in the briefcase.
Because we only use A3 and A4 paper sizes, routinely, in Australia, this meant that my new, almost A3 briefcase could only hold one piece of A4 paper in each layer. When I complained to the briefcase supplier he said that briefcase sizes were one of the reasons that magazine companies did not use A4 paper as you could not fit two magazines side-by-side in a 'standard' briefcase. Hhhhhhrrrmmph, Pat Naughtin LCAMS Geelong, Australia Pat Naughtin is the editor of the free online newsletter, 'Metrication matters'. You can subscribe by sending an email containing the words subscribe Metrication matters to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- on 2003-08-18 17.16, Chris KEENAN at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 2003 Aug 18 Monday 00:07, Michael-O wrote: >> just read some atricles. >> >> 100 % metric!! > > New Scientist has always (since I first remember it in the 70s) been SI - it > is British! > > They used to be in A4 format, but changed to the US size some years ago.
