Hello, On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Thierry Bouche wrote: > » The reason you should determine the text width first is that the width of a > » line is very important for how easy a text is to read: if the line is too > » long then it is hard to find the beginning of the next line. > > but designers don't (necessarily) work that way: you usually have the > constraint of the paper format (or choose one in the first place), > then choose the text width/height and adjust type size/leading to > achieve nice text blocks. You can't say like in current standard > classes `i want that font size/leading on that paper' and get a line > length/textheight computed, because you'd adjust the leading depending > on the line length, and the line length (together with type size) > depending on the margins... What set of parameters to specify the layout would you think is most convenient? Achim -- ________________________________________________________________________ | \_____/ | Achim Blumensath \O/ \___/\ | Mathematische Grundlagen der Informatik =o= \ /\ \| www-mgi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~blume /"\ o----| ____________________________________________________________________\___|