<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">SignWriting List<div>July 5, 2014</div><div><br></div><div>Hello André, Charles and everyone -</div><div><br></div><div>Paper size is one of those issues that never became fully standardized around the world. Out of respect for everyone, I do not want to tell anyone which paper size to choose. I think everyone should do what is natural for your country.</div><div><br></div><div>According to Wikipedia, the majority of the world’s countries use A4, which is established by the ISO and is<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the official </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">United Nations</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> document format. It has been adopted by all countries in the world except the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">United States</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Mexico</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica" title="Costa Rica" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Costa Rica</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombia" title="Colombia" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Colombia</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela" title="Venezuela" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Venezuela</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chile" title="Chile" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Chile</a><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Philippines</a>,<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size)" title="Letter (paper size)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">US letter</a> <span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">format is still in common use, despite their official adoption of the ISO standard. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;">So I actually thought that Canada was using A4…smile</span></font></span><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;">…</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;">So try to adjust your printer’s driver to the size you need, and your printer should shrink or expand it depending on what is needed..</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;">As far as our printing of the Proceedings later, I will be printing the books in the United States so those who want a printed copy will receive a book in US letter size - smile -</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Val ;-)</span></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#252525" face="sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 5, 2014, at 6:49 PM, André L <<a href="mailto:andre-andre@HOTMAIL.CA">andre-andre@HOTMAIL.CA</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br> <br>in Canada, and in USA we use the paper size "Letter". Each time I print in European format "A4", my pages are to short and formatted documents become awful.<br> <br>For the symposium what is the page format so everybody can print nice documents?<br> <br>thanks<br> <br>André Lemyre<br></div>________________________________________________<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION</div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Post Messages to the SignWriting List:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SignWriting List Archives & Home Page<a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist</a></div><div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages<a href="http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1">http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1</a></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>________________________________________________
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