Re: [SLE] Metrication inches forward {a dummy asks}
From: Fergus Wilde (fwilde_at_chethams.org.uk)
Date: 07/31/03
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:34:06 +0100
On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:55, Peter Evans wrote:
> I've just about got used to the (semifictional) measurement of monitors
> by diagonals in inches, and the capacity of printers and scanners in
> "dpi" -- but really, for OOo to make "letter size" the default page size
> and to have me adjust its margins in inches is a bit much for me to
> stomach.
>
> Mozilla's in inches, too. Bleurghh.
>
> Konqueror is set up for A4 and centimetres, but it refuses to send
> anything to the printer. Could there be a message in that? Is
> SuSEgnuLinux more ruggedly American than 'Doze,
No! It's more ruggedly international outward looking. I think you may also be
the only one calling it SuSEgnuLinux, though I wouldn't wish to interfere
with your freedom so to do. I would also remind you that inches are
profoundly British - when they call them 'Imperial' measurements, they mean
Rockall and the Falklands ...
>so I must learn to love
> these quaint, pre-Napoleonic units?
Now, come on for a mo - when something flies by you on the motorway, do you
really say 'Blimey guv, 'e must have been doing over 130 kilometres an hour!'
As for dear ole Napoleon, well ... when we measured him up for his coffin, I
think feet and inches will have been the order of the day.
>Say it ain't so, and that I've just
> overlooked something simple.
After the above rant, on checking I notice that my OpenOffice is in A4 and
centimetres throughout ... apparently by default.
Cheers
Fergus
5' 11", 17st 6lb, held together with two-and-a-quarter inch countersunk brass.
>
> -- Peter Evans, Linux ignoramus, asking stoopid questions since circa
> June '03.
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