I have been in the habit lately of using 2.0 cm margins all around on my
US letter size paper since it doesn't matter to me to have an integer
number of centimeters between the margins. The hole punches still miss
the text so things work well for the 3-ring notebooks my students and I
use. Binding considerations of course would change that. BTW, I
predominantly use this letter size because that's the size of the copy
paper my college uses and I'm not about to purchase and tote A4 paper
personally just for that pleasure.
There. Now there's something that someone can use to claim I'm not
dedicated enough to The Effort.* ;-)
Jim
* No, using A4 paper is not synonymous with metrication.
Gregory Peterson wrote:
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> I have started using 2.3 cm margins and 1 cm tabs on all my documents that use P4
>paper. Since the actual paper width is closer to 21.6 cm a 2.3 cm margin gives me a
>full 17 cm row of text with 16 tab stops. If using a two column format I can have two
>8 cm columns each with 7 tab stops and a 1 cm gap in between columns. A three column
>format would have 5 cm columns with a 1 cm space between each. The top and bottom
>margins of 2.3 cm are used simply for consistency.
....
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