On 2014-04-25, John Hendy wrote:
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?
Yes, at least partly. Verachtet mir die alten
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Michael Strey mst...@strey.biz wrote:
On 2014-04-25, John Hendy wrote:
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
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Michael Strey mst...@strey.biz wrote:
On 2014-04-25, John Hendy wrote:
[snip]
Default Org - LaTeX article looks *ugly as all hell* to me.
Check the Komascript classes.
Missed this point. I've dabbled with them a little, but will have to
take another look as
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes:
I'm thinking that the article class must either 1)
not embody the classic rules that well or 2) the classic rules
aren't very aesthetically pleasing after all.
or 3) the classic rules are variable and flexible.
Here is a quote from the Koma script
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote:
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes:
I'm thinking that the article class must either 1)
not embody the classic rules that well or 2) the classic rules
aren't very aesthetically pleasing after all.
or 3) the classic rules
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes:
J. David Boyd writes:
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
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
Recommended reading if your are interested in typography:
Robert Bringhurst: The Elements of Typographical Style ISBN 0-88179-205-5
Victoria Squire: Getting it Right with Type ISBN-13: 978-1-85669-474-2
Ellen Lupton: thinking with type ISBN 1-56898-448-0
Derek Birdsall: notes on book design ISBN
Bringhurst is very good.
Also, good discussions from a LaTeX point of view in Chapters 2 of the
Koma-Script and Memoir manuals.
On my system, I get these with `texdoc memoir' and `texdoc koma'.
hth,
Tom
Martin Schöön martin.sch...@gmail.com writes:
Recommended reading if your are interested
On 25 April 2014 21:51, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote:
Bringhurst is very good.
Also, good discussions from a LaTeX point of view in Chapters 2 of the
Koma-Script and Memoir manuals.
On my system, I get these with `texdoc memoir' and `texdoc koma'.
hth,
Tom
Both Koma and Memoir
J. David Boyd writes:
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
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.
On 2014-04-23, J. David Boyd wrote:
I can export an org file to
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can find
with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
You can use the LaTeX geometry package:
\usepackage[margin=0.25in]{geometry}
HTH,
--
Bastien
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
find with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
You can use the LaTeX geometry package:
\usepackage[margin=0.25in]{geometry}
HTH,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:59 AM, J. David Boyd jdavidb...@adboyd.com wrote:
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
find with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
You can use
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
find with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
You can use the LaTeX geometry package:
John Hendy jw.he...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 11:59 AM, J. David Boyd jdavidb...@adboyd.com wrote:
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
find with
Nick Dokos ndo...@gmail.com writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
Bastien b...@gnu.org writes:
jdavidb...@adboyd.com (J. David Boyd) writes:
I've looked through all the latex, org-latex, org-beamer variables I can
find with customize-apropos, but not having any luck.
You
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