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From: Dieter Baron <dillo@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Cc: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Page Margins?
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:06:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2DDBF4F4-1B45-48D7-8245-8F3EAAD34199@danbala.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C2C8DCF.2050704@bsd.lv>

hi,

>>> 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.

yours,
dillo--
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-01 14:06 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
2010-07-01 12:45   ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-01 14:06     ` Dieter Baron [this message]
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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