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What an amazing waste of space on the paper... I mean, yes margins are good, but when you lose 60% of the page to them they might be overbearing.
by zeeveener 9y ago
What an amazing waste of space on the paper... I mean, yes margins are good, but when you lose 60% of the page to them they might be overbearing.
- cooper12 9y agoIt's possible that the margins are meant to be cropped by the printer. Though more likely it's just an optimization of line-length, font size, and ink usage. (since ink costs more than paper)
- rkangel 9y agoMy guess is that it is typeset for a particular journal of law - whatever is used to officially document SCOTUS decisions, with an appropriate column size for that. The additional electronic publishing is just using the same format but slapping it in the middle of A4/Letter.