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From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
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Subject: Re: What's the best documentation size?
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Date: 9 Mar 90 19:52:55 GMT
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In article <9223@stiatl.UUCP> todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman) writes:
>What's the best size paper to use in software documentation?

We have been using 5.5x8.5  (1/2 A), mostly because when we
started, our documents were small, and the smaller binders were
less expensive.  Now, our documents are not so small, and won't
fit comfortably in the small  1" binders, so we are contemplating
going to A size, depending in part on how we feel and in part on
what it will cost for the two different binder sizes on our next
order.

Our British (and European) distributor reformats our documents
onto A4 (I think.)  it's about 8x12 inches, and he uses a plastic
spiral binding.  Looks good, once you get used to it.

I'm not sure what our Japanese distributor uses, and it's all
translated into Japanese and printed in Kanji, anyway 8-)  (BTW,
the product runs in Kanji on Kanji terminals)