Setting margins

It is very important to leave sufficient margins on a page, especially for beginning readers. Cluttered, overcrowded materials look difficult to read and discourage potential readers.

Here are some guidelines to follow when you set margins:

• Leave adequate margins for the size of book.

  Tip:	About 2.25 centimeters (1 inch) all around on A4 paper is a good guideline. Margins on larger paper should be proportionally wider.

• Allow for trimming the finished book.

  Caution:

  When books are trimmed, part of the outside margins will be cut off. The thicker the book, the more margin you will lose.

• Allow for gutter margins, especially for side-bound books.

• Paper sizes

• Task module: Setting margins
• In task module: How to lay out printed materials using handwritten...
• In task module: Formatting printed materials
• In task module: Designing printed materials
• In task module: Producing printed materials, by Anne Klaassens (contributor), Robin Rempel (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor, contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Diane Wroge (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Developing instructional materials, by Trudy K. Stewart, Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Trudi C. Hunt (contributor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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