Re: [AD] SF.net SVN: alleg:[13829] allegro/branches/4.9/docs/src/refman/latex. template

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2010-10-14, Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 14 Oct 2010, at 8:38 , tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Revision: 13829
> > >          http://alleg.svn.sourceforge.net/alleg/?rev=13829&view=rev
> > > Author:   tjaden
> > > Date:     2010-10-14 12:38:27 +0000 (Thu, 14 Oct 2010)
> > >
> > > Log Message:
> > > -----------
> > > latex: Don't waste so much of the page on margins.
> >
> > Beware.
> > The default LaTeX margins are set the way they are for a reason: longer
> > lines of text are harder to read.

Here's a copy if you wish to see.
http://tjaden.strangesoft.net/a5/refman.pdf.gz

Actually, the main motivation wasn't so much save
paper (who is really going to print it?) but the
verbatims were overrunning the right margin, and
since we have a lot of
long_identifiers_which_don't_get_hyphenated, you
would get this ugly effect more often.

> The real reason is how much easier you can reach 200 pages in your
> dissertation with the Latex defaults :)

There is also that.

Peter