From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Michael Strey <mstrey@strey.biz>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
"J. David Boyd" <jdavidboyd@adboyd.com>
Subject: Re: setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:01:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft9_qMH+fpL9WXF0GWZpbmqnhTH+Djg8UXcxqf2YEkyjZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761lz58c2.fsf@strey.biz>
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:29 AM, Michael Strey <mstrey@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 in mind.
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? Default Org -> LaTeX article looks *ugly as all hell* to me.
Other than theoretical principle, is there evidence that readers
prefer the look of the default LaTeX article sizing?
John
>
>
> On 2014-04-23, J. David Boyd wrote:
>> I can export an org file to a PDF no problem, looks great.
>>
>> 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 any luck.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>
> --
> Michael Strey
> www.strey.biz
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-23 14:48 setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 14:54 ` Bastien
2014-04-23 16:59 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 17:41 ` John Hendy
2014-04-23 18:24 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-23 17:47 ` Nick Dokos
2014-04-23 18:25 ` J. David Boyd
2014-04-24 10:29 ` Michael Strey
2014-04-25 19:01 ` John Hendy [this message]
2014-04-25 19:31 ` Martin Schöön
2014-04-25 19:51 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-25 19:57 ` Martin Schöön
2014-04-28 13:58 ` Michael Strey
2014-04-28 23:13 ` John Hendy
2014-04-28 23:23 ` John Hendy
2014-04-29 0:06 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-04-29 2:47 ` John Hendy
2014-04-25 20:19 ` Achim Gratz
2014-04-26 12:23 ` J. David Boyd
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