My favorite proportion, enforced by various bits of TeX documentation set up to be printed on either side of the pond, is 210mm wide (A4 width), but 11" high (letter-sized height).
It's a workable compromise which ensures that all versions of a document have the same pagination/index.
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My favorite proportion, enforced by various bits of TeX documentation set up to be printed on either side of the pond, is 210mm wide (A4 width), but 11" high (letter-sized height).
It's a workable compromise which ensures that all versions of a document have the same pagination/index.
You could also store paper with those proportions in American file cabinets without folding.
And they can be stored in A4-sized cabinets w/o difficulty as well.
I'm curious if there's a reason, or just accidental quirk of your comment, that you gave one dimension in mm and the other in inches?
Because that’s what the standards are specified as?
Ah thanks, hadn't stopped and thought about "letter-sized" being an American standard.
I still think it's odd to not translate one or the other if describing a 2D size, though.
I wasn't using my Mac where I have a Service which will do dimension calculations/unit conversions on the fly.
Type:
select it and choose Safari | Services | Calculate and Replace (or hit command #)