--- On Sun, 12/6/09, Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Printing book on two-sided document
> To: [email protected]
> Received: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 8:33 AM
> Luca Carlon wrote:
> > Hi! Tomorrow I will have to print my final thesis, and
> I'll have it 
> > binded. So, I checked in LyX the "two-sided document"
> checkbox, to have 
> > it on the two sides to create the book, but I noticed
> something strange. 
> > I suppose this is not LyX related, but I don't know:
> the created 
> > document is, of course, different when the page is on
> the right side or 
> > on the left side, but I noticed as well that the
> column is not centered, 
> > and that the wider free space is on the side of the
> page that will be 
> > binded. I mean, if the page is a right page, the wider
> free space is on 
> > the right, and the column with the text is moved a
> little on the left. 
> > Isn't this strange? Shouldn't the wider free space of
> the page be on the 
> > side of the page that is going to be bided? Is this
> correct or maybe 
> > I've done something wrong?
> 
> It's correct. Remember that the inner space in double-side
> layout is the *sum* 
> of both the inner margin of the left and the right page, so
> the inner margin 
> of each individual page has to be narrower than the outer
> margin.
> 
> Jürgen


Of course!  That has been bugging me for a long time and the explanation is so 
obvious!  Thanks



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