What is a gutter margin?

A gutter margin is the white space formed by the adjoining inside margins of two facing pages in a book, or the space between columns on a page.

The location of the gutter margin on a page depends on how the book is bound.

Here is a table to help you decide where to put the gutter margin:

Here are some diagrams of gutter margins:

• Gutter margins on facing pages
• Gutter margins between columns

• Setting margins

• Concept module: gutter margin
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): G
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• 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.]

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