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Bug#1062983: Developers Reference in A4 instead of US Letter
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Holger Levsen
Feb 4, 2024, 2:30:05 PM2/4/24
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hi & thanks for filing this bug report!
On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 10:57:03AM +0100, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
> May I request, that:
>
> a) We switch to A4 as the default format for the developers-reference
> since that is the format used by most of the world.
> b) We consider offering both formats on the Debian manuals page, so that
> users can choose their preferred format.
I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
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On Sun, Feb 04, 2024 at 10:57:03AM +0100, Sebastian Geiger (Lanoxx) wrote:
> May I request, that:
>
> a) We switch to A4 as the default format for the developers-reference
> since that is the format used by most of the world.
> b) We consider offering both formats on the Debian manuals page, so that
> users can choose their preferred format.
I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
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cheers,
Holger
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Holger Levsen
Feb 5, 2024, 5:30:04 AM2/5/24
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 11:00:42AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
> > the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
> Looks like that info can be gotten from the locales on glibc systems:
> > I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
> > the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
[...]
nice, thanks.
> For languages with one translation instead of one per dialect,
> you could produce documents in each of the unique sizes.
I don't understand, what do you mean with "one per dialect" here?
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Bill Allombert
Feb 5, 2024, 1:50:07 PM2/5/24
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On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:23:39AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 11:00:42AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
> > > the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
> > Looks like that info can be gotten from the locales on glibc systems:
> [...]
>
> nice, thanks.
>
> > For languages with one translation instead of one per dialect,
> > you could produce documents in each of the unique sizes.
>
> I don't understand, what do you mean with "one per dialect" here?
I assume dialect means pt_PT vs pt_BR. Each locale can have a different
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 11:00:42AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> > > I think for English at least I'd prefer to offer both A4 and letter, for eg
> > > the German translation I think it's enough to only provide A4.
> > Looks like that info can be gotten from the locales on glibc systems:
> [...]
>
> nice, thanks.
>
> > For languages with one translation instead of one per dialect,
> > you could produce documents in each of the unique sizes.
>
> I don't understand, what do you mean with "one per dialect" here?
page size even if the translation is the same.
Cheers,
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