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Hans Hagen wrote:
> if you and Uwe cook up some basic styles, i can optimize them

There's an easy type area algorithm implemented in the typearea
package, on that relies the koma-script package. (KoMa is for
Markus Kohm, not alcoholism...)
It is recommended by Jan Tschichold and called "n-Teilung" or
"9-er-Teilung".
You divide page width and page height by a number n, that must
be greater than 5, for a good book layout n=9 is recommended.
The greater the number, the greater becomes the type area and
the smaller the margins.
You take 1/n of the width as the margin to the binding and 2/n
as the outer margin; 1/n of the height for the head and 2/n for
the foot margin -- that's all.

There are much more algorithms and geometric constructions for
"classical" tpe areas, but they all have no big differences.

We'll meet in Rosenheim.

Grüßlis vom Hraban!