From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Wed Mar 18 08:26:15 2009 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom7 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom7@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 9E950C76BB3; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:26:15 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from ns.nag-j.co.jp (218-42-159-107.cust.bit-drive.ne.jp [218.42.159.107]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB9DC56CFF for ; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:26:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from 218-42-159-108.cust.bit-drive.ne.jp ([218.42.159.108] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ns.nag-j.co.jp with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ljq8l-0005uN-Iv for sc22wg5@open-std.org; Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:24:39 +0900 Message-ID: <49C0A21D.2040208@nag-j.co.jp> Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:26:21 +0900 From: Malcolm Cohen User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (Windows/2008022014) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: WG5 Subject: Re: [ukfortran] (SC22WG5.3959) (j3.2006) Formatting of the next Working Draft References: <20090317030421.8B2F7C178D6@www2.open-std.org> <20090317100755.E6DCAC178D6@www2.open-std.org> In-Reply-To: <20090317100755.E6DCAC178D6@www2.open-std.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk Van Snyder wrote: > Malcolm Cohen wrote: >> Hi WG5, >> >> Obviously the paper size setting will (slightly) inconvenience approx >> half of the audience whichever is chosen; therefore my intention is to >> use A4 (as required by ISO). > > I thought we had chosen the margins to be fixed independently of paper > size, The opposite: the text area is independent of the paper size (and the margins vary), so that the formatting and pagination should not vary between A4 and Letter (who writes their letters on 21.59x27.94cm paper anyway - certainly not me). I say "should", but given LaTeX quirks I'm not entirely confident there would be no changes; mostly it seems to work out though. > and so that the document would fit We've chosen our text area size so that the margins will be within acceptable bounds on both sizes. > and print properly on both A4 and 8.5x11 paper. > Yes, the document prints "properly" on both sizes of paper, but one does have to use the right options or it might end up with unnecessarily small fonts, poorly centred, or with narrow/wide margins. You should use whatever printer option you used for the CD (08-007r2) last year. Cheers, -- .....................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.