Timeline for Why are default LaTeX margins so big?
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| Mar 4, 2021 at 13:49 | comment | added | Neil | According to my professor, the wide margins are for them to scribble notes for us. So, if anyone wants to give any feedback, they can use that space to write their comments/feedback. | |
| Jul 30, 2015 at 14:43 | comment | added | user10274 | Without proper outer/lower margins, how would you hold the paper in your hands? (Besides that, lines shouldn't become too long because that would hamper readability.) | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 2:02 | comment | added | cfr | I'm not so sure. A sample size of 1 is ample if the results are good or bad enough. Lots of events only need to happen once to shake the universe. You might think that avoiding the risk of another Fermat was worth a lot of margin space... | |
| May 10, 2014 at 0:38 | comment | added | user29020 | @isomorphismes Sample size of 1 is not all that telling. | |
| Dec 18, 2013 at 9:18 | comment | added | McGafter | It is to avoid a similar situation to Fermat's Last Theorem, whereby we'd be bereft of a wonderful academic proof for decades simply because the margin was too small in some smart guy's book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 22:19 | comment | added | isomorphismes | I just picked up a Tufte book at-random (Visual Explanations) and counted an arbitrary line on an arbitrary page: 71 characters. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 13:20 | answer | added | lockstep | timeline score: 19 | |
| Sep 17, 2012 at 12:01 | comment | added | math | To actually render the margins see the layout package. I found this very insightful. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 18:08 | comment | added | morbusg | Please, do not think of whitespace as "wasting space"! Whitespace has a function beyond marginal notes and paper<->typeblock aesthetics; it gives your eyes a place to rest, even if you do not consciously notice that. | |
| Sep 13, 2012 at 17:22 | history | edited | jlconlin | edited tags | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 22:44 | vote | accept | jlconlin | ||
| Sep 12, 2012 at 7:00 | answer | added | Paul Gaborit | timeline score: 23 | |
| Sep 12, 2012 at 6:46 | history | edited | lockstep | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2 characters in body; edited tags |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 22:31 | history | edited | doncherry | edited tags | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 22:14 | answer | added | Paul Stanley | timeline score: 417 | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTeX/status/245628059749851136 | ||
| Sep 11, 2012 at 19:38 | answer | added | Peter Wilson | timeline score: 66 | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 19:10 | comment | added | Jim Hefferon | See this related question: tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14348/… . | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 18:44 | comment | added | StrongBad | The margins are so big because the paper is so big. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 18:25 | comment | added | Juri Robl | You should have a look at the KOMA-Script Doku. There is a detailed explanation on how margins should be computed. Also, the size is big because you should have a maximum of 80 characters per line, but better in the range of 60-70. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 18:21 | comment | added | Gonzalo Medina | There is space reserved for marginal notes. And I don't see why you shouldn't change the margins (within reasonable limits). | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 18:16 | history | asked | jlconlin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |