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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hallo Axel, and thank you for your
detailed reply.<br>
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Axel E. Retif wrote:<br>
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But here is different. My suggestion to read the documentation of
the geometry package is because it deals with page layout in a
very illustrative manner.
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Now understood. Sorry, that point was not clear before.<br>
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As for the few pages of the documentation of the memoir class I
suggested, let me say first that I haven't even used that class at
all, but said documentation is a master class in typography and
book design ---you don't have to use the class to profit a lot
from reading it. Chapter Two, «Laying out the page», for example,
deals more in depth in page design than the geometry package, but
can be more intimidating.
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Also now understood. It is clear that I iniitally misunderstood
your reason for proposing that the documentation for these packages
merited study.<br>
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The few pages of «Terminology» deal with something which for me is
fundamental to solve the issues Doug McKenna is facing:
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I don't think one can achieve what McKenna needs unless you make a
couple of templates (LaTeX and Word) with the same font family,
and the same font size and baselineskip, and then, when you have
achieve the text box size and margins you're looking for, send
those templates to the authors and ask them to use them
unmodified.<br>
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The point is, Doug is not <i>trying</i> to typeset material that
meets certain constraints; his task is only to vet material that has
already been prepared (and which he cannot request be re-set to meet
these criteria) and decide whether or not it meets the publisher's
requirements. So, how to achieve some combination of
baseline/beardline/descenders/parentheses/margins is not at issue —
the issue is only to decide what intrusion (if any) into the margin
area is sanctioned by "good practice".<br>
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** Phil.<br>
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