[texhax] LaTeX Pagination Reversed

Philip TAYLOR P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Sun Apr 9 01:08:45 CEST 2006



Steve Peter wrote:


[snip]

 > The notion is that, when a spread is open, there will be three equal
 > ribbons of white with the text block in between. To get the "ribbons"
 > to be equal, the inner margin must be half of the outer margin, since
 > the inner margins will butt against each other in the spread.

That ignores the binding loss, which is the primary reason that inner
margins need to be /wider/ than might otherwise be decreed by mere
\ae sthetics ...

** Phil.




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