On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Steve Litt wrote:
I've done some research on this topic. Generally speaking, each line should be a little less than 70 characters. If they get much longer, the reader has a hard time going to the proper next line. If they get much shorter, you get increases hyphenation and funky inter-word spacing.
Steve, That's consistent with what I read years ago when I consumed several books on typography.
Beyond that, a lot of readability hinges on where the reader will be reading. Paper? PDF on full sized monitor? PDF on mobile device? ePub? Combination of preceding?
The document is a PDF. I've set the page size to US Executive (8"x10"), text font is URW Palatino 11 pt. Outer margins are 0.5", inner margins 0.9" for binding (it's typeset for double-side printing.) If someone wants to read it on their mobile telephone, wristwatch, or eyeglasses it's up to them to do so. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
