Re: Page Margins?

["Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>]

On Sun, 04.07.2010 at 22:22:06 +0200, Kristaps Džonsons 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, this doesn't make any sense to me.  Can you clarify?
> >> 
> >> Either way, I'd like at least one reference for this.
> > 
> > Jan Tschichold recommends – for double sided printing – dividing
> > height and width by 9 and using one part as top and outer margins and
> > two parts as bottom and inner margins (Willkürfreie Maßverhältnisse
> > der Buchseite und des Satzspiegels).  For single sided printing, I
> > can't find a reference, but would try taking one part for left and
> > right margins.
> 
> Dillo and Joerg,
> 
> I ended up running with the above formula as it scales nicely both down 
> and up.  Better: it generates consistent results.  Enclosed are examples.
> 
> General question to all: how do these look?  Bikesheddy things like 
> font, scale, and margins are trivial to change, but let's do it now, if 
> necessary, and be done with it.
> 
> Please let me know if you'd like anything else in -Tps.  Unless 
> something breaks or another feature is requested, I think this is it, 
> and I'm ready to see if PDF is easy enough to implement without bloat.

The four column tables in mdoc.7.ps "wobble", ie. the columns are not
aligned 100%, you can see that on page 11 for example. A sample
mdoc.7.ps that you provided some days earlier didn't have that problem

Uli
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