Manuscript margins on every side. A narrow column of text
Books is generally best, for short lines are easiest to write
and to read, and do not tire the hand, or the eye, in
passing from one line to the next. For this reason
the text is often divided into two or more columns

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Single Shext (a.) “Upright "shape of Ъоок (Ь.~)
Interproportions of WIDE MARGINS Sfc.

Obbnur~t

Shape or
Book (с.):
double col¬
umns: see
also f^2o2.

Fig. 70.

when the page is wide, or the writing is very small
in comparison.

The exact proportion of margin to text in a given
page depends on circumstances, and is largely a
matter of taste (ex. fig. 71 & note 2, b, p. 220). But
just as it is advantageous generally to keep to certain
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Inner
margin
& inch.

Top margin approximately ¿ inch (measured to the
top of the writing on the first line—see also fig. 6j).

length, of WññrugAhu, 2Y% -

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Fig. 71.—Diagram showing the ruling of a (Recto) page 4}
inches X 7i inches as for a manuscript book (allowing five or
six words to the Writing-line). There are fifteen Writing-
lines, the Line-space being jfo inch.

The proportions of large CAPITALS, shown above, are set
by the Line-space (footnote, p. 187).

The Foot margin is ig inch.

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Side
margin
11 inch.

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