On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Michael Strey <mst...@strey.biz> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Please read > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_page_construction > before changing anything in the layout of margins. > > The typical LaTeX classes are made thorougly with those classic rules of > page construction in mind.
I have to ask: is whatever was once considered the golden ratio for text-to-whitespace in printed material, or even used by Gutenberg himself for proper typesetting considered relevant/best practice today? Default Org -> LaTeX article looks *ugly as all hell* to me. Other than theoretical principle, is there evidence that readers prefer the look of the default LaTeX article sizing? John > > > On 2014-04-23, J. David Boyd wrote: >> I can export an org file to a PDF no problem, looks great. >> >> However, how do I get rid of the huge left and right and top and bottom >> margins? I like my PDFs to have no more than .75" top, bottom, left and >> right. >> >> I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can find >> with customize-apropos, but not having any luck. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dave > > -- > Michael Strey > www.strey.biz > >
