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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Graeme Gill wrote:
>
> Only that it seems to be echo'd in some applications (Photoshop
> comes to mind, although maybe more recent versions have addressed
> this), and I'm therefore wondering if it's generally understood in
> the U.S. that cm is not a preferred metric unit, and in practice
> seems to be falling out of popular usage in the rest of the world.

Here in the US, the ruler that I have available is marked with inches 
and centimeters.  Are you saying that rulers in the rest of the world 
are no longer marked with centimeters?  If they are not marked with 
centimeters, then what are they marked with?  A ruler marked with 
millimeters or meters would not be so convenient.

It seems natural that centimeters was used since it is easiest to 
measure the width and height of a computer screen or page-sized object 
(e.g. sheet of paper) in centimeters rather than in meters or 
millimeters.

Bob
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