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> There is no way to get a proper layout done This is puzzling - how do you explain the abundance of people who seem to have no problem with this whatsoever?
by skore 12y ago
> There is no way to get a proper layout done
This is puzzling - how do you explain the abundance of people who seem to have no problem with this whatsoever?
Finally: I have seen lots and lots of A4 books, but they're simply not as common. It probably does help to live in Europe in that regard.
- mrottenkolber 12y agoAre you a bookmaker? The are the ones with the problems. ;) > I have seen lots and lots of A4 books And they all have suboptimal layouts.
- skore 12y ago> And they all have suboptimal layouts. (my emphasis) My question would be - would you be willing to ascribe that to taste?
- mrottenkolber 12y agoNo. Try to layout a document on A4 while maintaining at least basic standard rules (e.g. lines of 8-12 words, a pretty text body layout, e.g. a "nice ratio" like 3/4 or 1/2, with standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom). Since your font size will either be 11 or 12 pt on A4 because otherwise you use less than half of the paper or your font is really huge, you're not left with many options.
- MrDosu 12y agoAll of this is voodoo that you learned working with your preferred aspect ratio and size. None of these rules have any kind of objective basis.
- SeanLuke 12y agoI wouldn't be so hasty to dismiss hundreds, perhaps thousands of years of aesthetic tweaking by experts as voodoo simply to defend a page size and proportion whose primary advantage is not aesthetic but function.
- skore 12y agoNone of that makes much sense to me, to be honest. I find it curious that you just say: > standard margins, that is 1 on top, left and right and 2 on bottom No units, which makes me assume you're talking inches... Perhaps your problem is that you also need to switch to metric? ;-)
- mrottenkolber 12y agoNo units because its all about proportions. E.g. the bottom margin is "double" so it can accommodate page numbers and set the text body on the "horizon".
- baddox 12y agoI suspect the explanation is similar to the explanation of the abundance of people who seem to have no problem with US paper standards whatsoever, namely, that it's just paper, and most people don't have particularly strict usage constraints, so they just use what they have and it works fine.