[OS X TeX] overview of what TeX is producing

[William F. Adams]

I'd said:
>> Somewhat. The memoir manual has a good discussion of page proportion,

And on Mar 1, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Jason Davies replied:

> thanks (both) for those links...busy reading now....do we know what the
> opposition does? How does Word handle all these things? does it have 
> its
> own algorithms etc? presumably they're secret...:-)

Word doesn't have an algorithm for page proportion --- WYSIWYG, there's 
an interactive dialogue for setting such which defaults to 1" margins 
top/bottom and 1.25" left/right.

If you use the Wizards and templates they're mostly designed by Daniel 
Will-Harris and are okay except that anyone else who uses them will get 
the same results, and people aren't that great at picking an 
appropriate template for a given purpose, and there are only so many 
templates.

I'd suggest showing your colleagues LyX, or offering to install it for 
them when you need to do collaborative stuff.

William

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