[Am-info] Open Office question.

[Mitch Stone]

On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 03:09 AM, Marcus de Geus wrote:

> As another aside, if you'll take a moment to consider the elegance of the 
> A paper size system (in which A0 measures one square metre, with each 
> smaller size measuring half the next larger size in surface area as well 
> as having exactly the same proportions), you might reconsider and perhaps 
> even start a campaign to drag the "New World" into the present century, 
> measurement-wise. I know, it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it...

This isn't really an argument for or against metric. All paper is cut from 
"parent sheets" and is similarly proportional.


   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com