Page Layout ⇒ Margin complexities

[Erica]

Bingo! Silly of me not to have followed that through - I had rendered all that code useless!

Looks great and thank you so much for your time and for being so quick to respond.

Erica

[cypherpunks]

Is a Courier like font really a requirement? Usually such a font is hard to read. In contrast to the past days of the typerwriter machines, we commonly use proportional fonts today. Non-proportional (typewriter) fonts are commonly used for code listings, where character columns and indentation can be important.

There are claims that a fixed-width font increases the number of mistakes spotted by proof-readers. Not sure to what extent that's been proven, but I've been using fixed width fonts on papers that peers and professors correct and return to me. I think it makes sense particularly when grammar and mechanics are the focus of the proof-reading (papers are to practice a natural language that I'm not fluent in).

And indeed I have the same problem with text running into the right margin. My fix has been to simply make the right margin double that of the left. In that case the body of the text looks symmetric. But there's an artifact: anything that uses \centerline is not really centered (ok, fair enough), but worse: margin notes from the todonotes package overlap.

Your solution fixes these things. But now the title page and other surrounding text is also in a fixed-width font. I tried

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{\normalfont\maketitle}

but it seems to have no effect.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

That's because the default family was set to \ttdefault.

You can switch back in the macros:

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\author{\rmfamily Stefan}
\title{\rmfamily Test}
\date{\rmfamily \today}
\maketitle

Btw. feel free to start a new topic whenever you want to post a question. That's better than adding to older topics. There's space for millions of topics. A fresh topic is easier to see.

Stefan

[cypherpunks]

ah, thanks. That's just what I needed!