Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

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 <elderdanlewis@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
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