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Re: Bug with %two-side% ?
From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Bug with %two-side% ?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:08:47 -0500 (EST)
> Thomas Andre Berger writes:
> > Chapters should always start on the right side if you have two-side
> > option set. That is correct behaviour, IMHO.
> >
> > But the margins are wrong using two-side and the tex-backend. I don't
> > remember if that's how it when I use RTF (or MIF).
>
> When I was setting up the Python documentation handle both A4 and
> US-Letter formatting (we use our own LaTeX classes), I got mail from a
> European (don't recall which country) stating that starting a chapter
> on the right-hand-side wasn't "required" the way it is for the US;
> perhaps that's not quite right for all of Europe. Hmm.
> Are there any resources on the Web that discuss these sorts of
> internationalization issues?
I don't know any of site that discuss those issues but Japanese book
has two types, a book starts with right side and a book starts with
left side. This is not just chapters, but all pages. I don't think
'starting chapter' matters for it.
can any of japanese people confirm this?
--
yashi