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Subject: Re: setting left margin in PDF output of ORG file
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 14:01:58 -0500
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To: Michael Strey <mstrey@strey.biz>
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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
>
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> Michael Strey
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>