Ah.
I guess I think only in terms of my typing....(the computer allows for
text block but I tend to set my prose too to a left margin, & somewhat
broken right, as in e-mail).
Thanks Chris, & I do hope you're doing better (it takes if nothing else
a lot of simple courage to pay attention to something like this while
fighting for your health that way).
Doug
On 13-Feb-07, at 11:25 PM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 09:37 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> I'm a bit confused. Isn't the left margin always there?
>
> Doug, it took a while to click. Publishing jargon; verse is
> conventionally typeset to a left margin while prose is typeset as line
> length and justified over the length of that line, with the exception
> of
> the par end, of course. The position of the text block on the printed
> page is decided according to impositions and these conventions I
> happily
> forget, except the printer usually specifies the fold and cut marks.
> Verse generally has a larger margin then prose, according to such print
> production conventions. Anyways, set as prose, you don't have a left
> margin.
>
>
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