On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:39, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Kirk Coombs wrote: > > >>My biggest pet peave as well. I also carry around a default >template to keep my > >>margins and fonts set to the defaults I >want. > > > > > > Maybe we should just all convert over to the metric system. :-> > > > > Kirk > Hahahaha!! I was just going to mail the list about this, but I didn't > send the message... thought it might lead to a loooooong thread about > why the metric system is bad etc.... :) Well, thanks Kirk! :)
I'm grew up on the metric system and it's great, except for the fact that our paper (building supplies, etc) is cut to imperial measurements over here. OO defaults to A4 paper too, which is just not available generally over here. So we can convert to metric if we want, but that won't make much sense until metric paper sizes are available. (Not sure what I'd prefer, a metric-ized letter paper size or a4-size) On a side note, all US government contracts are officially done in metric, but since all engineering and architecture is still imperial here, you end up with 5.08x10.16's (2x4s). Michael -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
