Re: DOCBOOK: Bug with %two-side% ?

[Yasushi Shoji <yashi at yashi dot com>]

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