Re: [Groff] New release of -markup

[Johann Höchtl]

On 10/05/2012 03:08 PM, Denis M. Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:10:48 +0200
> Johann Höchtl <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The reason I did it my way is to save ordinary users the pain of
> working out sizes for themselves. Given the paper, pointsize and font
> family to be used, what are good values for text width, margins and
> many more?  I experimented a long time to find reasonable values, and
> they were for Palatino.
I have not spent enough time to think that out when I wrote my remark. A 
naive solution would be to treat that dimensions as fractions (eg. 10% 
left margin, 80% main paragraph area, 10% right margin) but that might 
not work out pleasantly outside some dimensions.

> Denis