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Tangential but is there a reason Latex documents have such huge margins by default? Nearly 500 pages that could have happily fitted into 300.
by bambataa 5y ago
Tangential but is there a reason Latex documents have such huge margins by default? Nearly 500 pages that could have happily fitted into 300.
- racingmars 5y agoTo quote Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Stlye: "Anything from 45 to 75 characters is widely regarded as satisfactory length of line for a single-column page set in a serifed face in a text size. The 66-character line (counting both letters and spaces) is widely regarded as ideal." Essentially, the theory is that longer lines are harder to read. A US Letter or A4-width page is just too wide for normal body text size according to most professional typographers. LaTeX provides typographically sound defaults.
- jdgoesmarching 5y agoWell, it’s definitely nice for phone reading.