[OS X TeX] Re : Stupid question about the tabular environment

[Alain Schremmer]

On Jan 17, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Adam M. Goldstein wrote:

> Also, I think the wide outside margins are intended to help the  
> person who will be holding the book while reading it; the extra  
> margin on the outside gives a way to do this without covering the  
> text with his or her fingers---a throwback, one might say, to a  
> point in time at which books were made for readability (some still  
> are, of course) as opposed to being cheap to manufacture.

How about the super wide margins—as well as the size 18 font—in those  
convoluted-conceited French "novels" that wouldn't have made it to  
180 pages otherwise?

Regards
--schremmer