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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Page Margins?
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:49:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629234908.GA1814@britannica.bec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2A635B.1020306@bsd.lv>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:19:23PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> Does anybody know of a formula for calculating page margins?  Or
> lacking that, a table of margins for the common formats?

I think the only sane rule of hand is the approach by some LaTeX pages:
take the page width and divide that by the width of 65m. Distribute the
margins evenly and/or 1:2 (one-page fs two-page), but ensure they have
some sane lower limit (e.g. 1cm or 2cm for DIN A4).

Joerg
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29 23:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-29 21:19 Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-06-29 23:49 ` Joerg Sonnenberger [this message]
2010-07-01 12:45   ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-01 14:06     ` Dieter Baron
2010-07-04 20:22       ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-05  8:00         ` Dieter Baron
2010-07-05 12:50           ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-06  8:49         ` Ulrich Spörlein
2010-07-06  9:40           ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-01 14:18     ` Joerg Sonnenberger

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