On Oct 13, 15:32, Werner Icking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 15:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: Adrian Mariano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > [...] I'm not sure what the best
> > way to choose the margins is. (Of course, ideally the default
> > behavior should be acceptable on both A4 and USA letter size---what a
> > nuisance, having these two different standards.)
>
> With MusiXTeX I choose the width of A4 (210 mm) and the height of
> letter (11 in) and let margins of 15mm on top and bottom (for handling)
> and 10 mm on left and right side, because a lot of printers cannot print
> on up to 8mm from the "end" of the paper.
A hybrid size like this seems like a good choice. Is it reasonable to
fix the margins at 10mm / 15 mm for all paper sizes (independent of
the font size chosen) and use the 11 inch by 210 mm paper size as the
default?
(Of course, at the moment I have no idea what determines the margins
for lilypond output. The textheight variables seems to be mostly
ignored. And the vertical margins are very big. What determines all
of this stuff?)
