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> And they all have suboptimal layouts. (my emphasis) My question would be - would you be willing to ascribe that to taste?

• mrottenkolber 12y ago
  No. 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 ago
    All 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 ago
      I 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 ago
    None 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 ago
      No 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".