2009/4/15 Anthony W. Youngman <lilyp...@thewolery.demon.co.uk>: > Just like a page has a top and bottom margin, and your usable area is > usually what's left (but may lose some to a header and/or footer space), so > from left to right you normally have left and right margin with usable area > being what's left, you sometimes lose some of that to the binding margin. > > I'll use American sizes for easy maths, but lets say you have a 1/2" binding > margin, that leaves you with an 8" wide page. If you now have 1/2" left and > right margins that leaves you with 7" of usable space. And you'd spec that > as '1/2" left and right, and 1/2" binding margins'. That says everything > that needs to be said.
This is only true if you could set a negative binding margin, and even in this case you could encounter problems with the paper size. Otherwise, how would you specify big outer margins for a book? See JPG for an example of outer margins greater than inner margins that would need both a negative binding and a virtual page size which I don't know how to deal with. Maybe you can offer a solution for this, which I still don't see. In LaTeX you can specify an oneside or twoside option that lets you easily handle both cases. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org
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