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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2010-04-07 22:47:28 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-changemargin.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-changemargin.html index 0ec0fd07080..871457cde09 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-changemargin.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-changemargin.html @@ -2,36 +2,36 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label changemargin</title> </head><body> <h3>Changing the margins in LaTeX</h3> -<p/>Changing the layout of a document’s text on the page involves several +<p/>Changing the layout of a document’s text on the page involves several subtleties not often realised by the beginner. There are interactions between fundamental TeX constraints, constraints related to the design of LaTeX, and good typesetting and design practice, that mean that any change must be very carefully considered, both to ensure -that it “works” and to ensure that the result is pleasing to the +that it “works” and to ensure that the result is pleasing to the eye. -<p/>LaTeX’s defaults sometimes seem excessively conservative, +<p/>LaTeX’s defaults sometimes seem excessively conservative, but there are sound reasons behind how Lamport designed the layouts themselves, whatever one may feel about his overall design. For -example, the common request for “one-inch margins all round on A4 -paper” is fine for 10- or 12-pitch typewriters, but not for 10pt (or +example, the common request for “one-inch margins all round on A4 +paper” is fine for 10- or 12-pitch typewriters, but not for 10pt (or even 11pt or 12pt) type because readers find such wide, dense, lines difficult to read. There should ideally be no more than 75 characters per line (though the constraints change for two-column text). -<p/>So Lamport’s warning to beginners in his section on ‘Customizing the -Style’ — “don’t do it” — should not lightly be ignored. +<p/>So Lamport’s warning to beginners in his section on ‘Customizing the +Style’ — “don’t do it” — should not lightly be ignored. <p/>This set of FAQs recommends that you use a package to establish consistent settings of the parameters: the interrelationships are taken care of in the established packages, without you <em>needing</em> -to think about them, but remember — the packages only provide -consistent, working, mechanisms: they don’t analyse the quality of +to think about them, but remember — the packages only provide +consistent, working, mechanisms: they don’t analyse the quality of what you propose to do. <p/>The following answers deal with the ways one may choose to proceed: <ul> <li> <a href="FAQ-marginpkgs.html">Choose which package to use</a>. <li> <a href="FAQ-marginmanual.html">Find advice on setting up page layout by hand</a>. </ul> -There is a related question — how to change the layout -temporarily — and there’s an answer that covers that, too: +There is a related question — how to change the layout +temporarily — and there’s an answer that covers that, too: <ul> <li> <a href="FAQ-chngmargonfly.html">Change the margins on the fly</a>. </ul> |