Why do margins bleed?

Why do margins bleed?

[John R. Culleton]

I have been playing with the very interesting t-layout module
written by Patrick Gundalach. When looking at the visualization
thus presented I have these questions:
1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page?
2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block?
These offsets are defined as  leftmargindistance and rightmargindistance.

These aspects seem to be related.
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John Culleton
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Re: Why do margins bleed?

[Patrick Gundlach]

> 1. Why do the left and right margin areas bleed off the page?

Design decision, I'd guess. 

> 2. Why are the margins offset a little from the main text block?

So that numbers in margin (from \section for example) have some
distance to the text body.

> These aspects seem to be related.

I am not sure about that.


I still have to fix a bug in the module that was reported to me a
looooooong time ago.

Patrick
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