Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à Muke Tever <mktvr@...>:
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>>Why is the length stated before the width?
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>Not length stated before width, but longest size stated before shorter size. A
>perfectly logical choice to me.
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No Christophe, it's length before width. If it were longest before
shorter, you couldn't tell the difference between A4 and A4L paper. Not
that you'd normally need to except on a photocopier. And I guess even
then you normally have pictures...
> That doesn't seem to be
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>It is the normal practice though, everywhere I've ever seen it.
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I guess you wouldn't see many references to landscape paper then...
>> Is it a metric thing?
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>Probably an American vs. the rest of the world thing. So it may connected to
>the metric thing too indeed.
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Yeah you weird American-types. ;) [1]
[1]: Incidentally, I do hope you realise I'm just bagging (inoffensively
insulting friends) you... I've heard tell that Americans don't do it so
don't understand it and get offended by it. Nothing offensive is meant
by it, I can assure you of that.
Tristan.
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