6.0648 Rs: Printers; A-4; Proverbia (6/99)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 6 Apr 1993 11:19:10 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0648. Tuesday, 6 Apr 1993.


(1) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 20:09:54 CST (11 lines)
From: "James Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: printer

(2) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 13:40:08 EST (9 lines)
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: printer

(3) Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 12:05:10 MST (16 lines)
From: George Lang <GLANG@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Subject: Still more on A-4

(4) Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 15:34:20 IDT (19 lines)
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0623 Proverbia (4/114)

(5) Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 15:52:27 IDT (21 lines)
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0634 And More Proverbs (2/32)

(6) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 09:15:05 -0600 (23 lines)
From: David Bantz <D-Bantz@uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: The length of a page

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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 93 20:09:54 CST
From: "James Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: printer

I don't think that any American printer which depends on frequency will work
in Germany, since the current is different. Two solutions: buy a
rechargeable such as the Diconix and just recharge it. I can vouch for the
fact that this works, since this is what I do when I go to Geramny. Or, I
feel sure that a laser printer with a Franzus connector or transformer if
you need one will work. Is it Jim Seymour who has the nice book on
traveling with a computer?
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 13:40:08 EST
From: Ed Haupt <haupt@pilot.njin.net>
Subject: printer

Many pcs, notebooks, etc. now have automatically switchable powersupplies
and all you need is a plug adaptor. I think all you need to do is ask
whether the power supply is switchable.

Ed Haupt
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Date: Sat, 3 Apr 93 12:05:10 MST
From: George Lang <GLANG@vm.ucs.UAlberta.CA>
Subject: Still more on A-4

From: George Lang
Romance Languages
University of Alberta
Most interesting, this elegant discussion on the Platonic essence of A-4, but
just yesterday a French graduate student here whose British M.A. was in its
last technical stages desperately needed just two little sheets of the stuff
(for a title page and a resume). Has anyone noticed the irony of this
obsessive electronic conversation on the identity of a medium we have
supposedly gone beyond?

George Lang
GLANG@VM.UCS.UALBERTA.CA
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 15:34:20 IDT
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0623 Proverbia (4/114)

Not quite anceps, but changed: I never appreciated the meaning of
"honesty is the best policy" until I heard it paraphrased in Hebrew
as, "the truth is the best lie," i.e., when dealing with a person who
expects you to mislead him, the best thing to tell him is the truth --
he'll never guess that it is the truth. Once I had heard that in Hebrew,
I remembered that "policy", as recently as the eighteenth century,
meant "crafty politics", so that the English meant the same as the
Hebrew -- and something quite different from the straight-arrow
advice I had always taken it to be.

David M. Schaps
Department of Classical Studies
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
FAX: 972-3-347-601
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Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 15:52:27 IDT
From: "David M. Schaps" <F21004@BARILVM>
Subject: Re: 6.0634 And More Proverbs (2/32)

I doubt that any discussion of "bloody" can continue very long without
the chestnut about Gilbert and Sullivan's _Ruddygore_, which the
foulermouthed called _Bloodygore_ so often that the authors or producer
(I don't know which) eventually changed it to _Ruddigore_, under which
name it goes to this day. The story is that one chap asked Gilbert
"How Bloodygore was doing?" Upon Gilbert's telling him that he meant
"Ruddygore", he answered, "Same thing." (Perhaps he said "Same
difference"). Gilbert told him that it was not. "For if it were," he
continued, "then when I tell you I admire your ruddy countenance --
which I do -- I would be telling you that I admire your bloody cheek --
which I don't!"

David M. Schaps
Department of Classical Studies
Bar Ilan University
Ramat Gan, Israel
FAX: 972-3-347-601
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Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 09:15:05 -0600
From: David Bantz <D-Bantz@uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: The length of a page


>Charles Faulhaber <cbf@athena.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>...11" form-fed paper is in fairly widespread use... so we can
>leave our 66 lines per inch alone for that.

To reiterate the obvious, the "length" of a page in lines of text depends
on the type size, style, margins, printer characteristics, whether a header
is automatically added, and many more factors. It's pretty frustrating
trying to match your software and printer to an arbitrary decision that
looked pretty on the originator's particular configuration. Please do not
make software or texts depend upon any specific number of lines per page
(or characters per line for that matter).

David Bantz <D-Bantz@UChicago.edu>
Director, Academic & Public Computing
University of Chicago
1155 East 60th St., Chicago, IL 60637-2745
312-702-0822 (vox) 312-702-7661 (fax)