[Scribus] ISO page sizes

[Henry Hartley]

>> From: David
>> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:51 PM
>> 
>> Well, nobody wants to steel the picas and points and ciceros or
>> whatevers from you. But internally the program should use the metric
>> system, just because it's the better and more commonly used one. I
think
>> it makes more sense to have exact mm than it makes to have exact pts,
>> because millimeters are lot easier to do calculations with. Also this
>> allows you to have the _exact_ page sizes for ISO pages.

Actually, I'd suggest that scribus do all internal calculations in
angstroms.
A millimeter is exactly 10,000,000 angstroms and an inch is exactly
254,000,000 angstroms and a point is exactly 3,527,777.78 ... Oh, never
mind.

-- 
Henry