- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 24 Apr 1997 11:46:56 +0100
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Rick writes: > Lets not think that many legal systems recognise that what we > from SGML-land think of as a document Not uncommon in the UK and Ireland until very recently for lawyers to insist on Foolscap size paper (like "Legal" but even longer and narrower, one of the old Imperial sizes that were obsoleted by the ISO sizes), and it had to be ruled in pale blue horizontally at 4 lines to the inch, and had to have a red vertical margin rule 1" in from the LH edge. One reason they had to change was that laser printers couldn't print an area tall enough to fill the page. Actually, some law is on scrolls (Jewish and Arabic?) so the pageless model should suit that perfectly :-) ///Peter
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