2009/12/6 Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org>:
> 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.
The above statement is true only if use design the document for
printing, where the space to bind/glue will be added at final prepress
stage. In case of document printed on laser printer and then manually
binded the inner margins have to be wider than outer.
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