Re: letter vs. a4 (and leger lines)

[David Rogers]

* David Raleigh Arnold <address@hidden> [2010-09-02 19:36]:

> On Thursday 02 September 2010 12:23:58 David Rogers wrote:
>
> > Just for good measure (or bad measure :-) ), another possible meaning
> > could be "lines resembling the ruling in a ledger book, i.e. square
> > with the page and evenly spaced relative to each other".
>
> But that resembles staff lines, not leger lines.

True enough - but none of the other possibilities, whether for ledger or
légère, is any more correct or convincing.

Another possibility: the use of the word "line" may be spurious, and
"ledger" used in the sense of "a wooden beam installed for the purpose
of creating a ledge" may be the direct ancestor of the musical term - "a
ledger" and _not_ "a ledger line".

But who knows?
And to answer that rhetorical question: Nobody, and certainly not either
of us. :)

--
David