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

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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:
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> 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. I know it may sound silly, but it's true: I find documents where people use lines that are too long harder to read than the default LaTeX spacing. It's the same reason that newspapers are printed in multiple columns rather than over the full width of the page.

Now clearly, we're talking about the manual for a programming library here, not a text book or news item. It may not matter too much in this case. After all, if you read it off the screen, or as a webpage the margins are also not set properly.

So again, be careful. It may be fine, just be aware that the default is not arbitrary and set the way it is because people like killing trees.


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


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