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

I use inches, but I have used "cm" when I needed to create a drawing 
that used a "scale" of say 1 cm per foot or some other thing that was 
large and needed to fit on a letter size paper, like a building 's 
network layout to scale.  Try making a building the size of a football 
field [American-football or soccer-football] onto one letter size page.

But, whenever I work with printed documents and not drawings, I use inches.

I am use to doing it.  The people I deal with are use to it.  If I was 
going to use picas or any other measurement, they would not understand 
me.  I have had laid printing type before so I use to deal with 
typesetting, but that was in the 70's and long before a computer was 
smaller than a refrigerator and not a desktop item. Now with desktop 
publishing and all that comes with it, typesetting concepts seem to no 
longer be something businesses are willing to deal with.  Even 
professional printer hardly ever use a printing press that uses hand 
laid type anymore.  It is all computer based and transfered to printing 
plates via laser and photo methods.

SO
like most I know, I use whatever is easiest for me to deal with. I know 
of some people that use metric for most of their work, and they live 
within a mile or three from me in New York State USA and our 
inch/foot/yard system.  The same goes with software.  I have not learned 
draw, yet, since I use other vector-graphics package for too many years 
to stop now and relearn another free package to do the same.  I use 
Inkscape for Windows and Linux, and before that I used Corel Draw.

So, if you prefer to use picas, points, or some other measurement, then 
that is what works the best for you and no one can say their's would be 
the measurement method over yours.  There are too many people that 
believe that, even if they can be proven wrong.

But, I also define web page fonts by "points" instead of any other size 
measurement in my style sheets [.css].  But that is not what was asked.


On 02/21/2013 06:19 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> Let me shift gears slightly.
>
> What measurement unit do y'all use in your Writer rulers and 
> margin/spacing settings. I've set mine to use Picas, which is a 
> traditional unit of measurement for typesetting. It's equal to 1/6 
> inch and provides for very tight control of a document.
>
> Do others use Picas? If not, what are you using?
>
> Virgil
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Virgil Arrington
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:46 PM
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letterand 
> A4 sizes
>
> > Children throughout the world can do it. Even you could!  You'll
> never do it until you determine to do so; the only problem is that
> you haven't yet tried.
>
> You're absolutely right, I haven't tried, because I've had no reason 
> to. My
> system has worked for me (and my fellow Americans) for my entire 57 
> years on
> Earth. Until it stops working, I'm quite happy to keep using it.
>
> I guess my point is that having something "better" isn't necessarily 
> enough
> motivation to produce change. I fully agree that the metric system is 
> better
> than the English. But, my English system works. I fully and accurately
> measure things every day with it, and I effectively communicate those
> measurements to others. Until it stops working, I have little 
> motivation to
> change.
>
> Virgil


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