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  1. \def\fileversion{1.2a}                                                          
  2. \def\filedate{30 Nov 90}                                                        
  3. \def\docdate {26 Feb 90}                                                        
  4. %                                                                               
  5. %% \CheckSum{134}                                                               
  6. %% \CharacterTable                                                              
  7. %%  {Upper-case    \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z         
  8. %%   Lower-case    \a\b\c\d\e\f\g\h\i\j\k\l\m\n\o\p\q\r\s\t\u\v\w\x\y\z         
  9. %%   Digits        \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9                                         
  10. %%   Exclamation   \!     Double quote  \"     Hash (number) \#                 
  11. %%   Dollar        \$     Percent       \%     Ampersand     \&                 
  12. %%   Acute accent  \'     Left paren    \(     Right paren   \)                 
  13. %%   Asterisk      \*     Plus          \+     Comma         \,                 
  14. %%   Minus         \-     Point         \.     Solidus       \/                 
  15. %%   Colon         \:     Semicolon     \;     Less than     \<                 
  16. %%   Equals        \=     Greater than  \>     Question mark \?                 
  17. %%   Commercial at \@     Left bracket  \[     Backslash     \\                 
  18. %%   Right bracket \]     Circumflex    \^     Underscore    \_                 
  19. %%   Grave accent  \`     Left brace    \{     Vertical bar  \|                 
  20. %%   Right brace   \}     Tilde         \~}                                     
  21. %%                                                                              
  22. %                                                                               
  23. %\iffalse                                                                       
  24. % Style option `A4' to be used with LaTeX V2.09                                 
  25. % Copyright (C) 1990 Johannes Braams, Nico Poppelier. All rights reserved.      
  26. %                                                                               
  27. % Copying of this file is authorized only if either                             
  28. % (1) you make absolutely no changes to your copy, including name, or           
  29. % (2) if you do make changes, you name it something other than                  
  30. %     A4.doc or A4.sty.                                                         
  31. % This restriction helps ensure that all files developed By NTG WG13            
  32. % are identical.                                                                
  33. %                                                                               
  34. % Error reports for UNCHANGED versions please to:                               
  35. %                          J.L. Braams                                          
  36. %                          JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl (Braams@hlsdnl5.bitnet)          
  37. %                      or: N.A.F.M. Poppelier                                   
  38. %                          N.Poppelier@elsevier.nl                              
  39. %                                                                               
  40. % \changes{v1.0}{10 Jan 90}{Changed the margins for one-sided printing}         
  41. % \changes{v1.1}{23 Jan 90}{Added \WideMargins macros}                          
  42. % \changes{v1.2}{26 Feb 90}{Consolidated setting of \marginparwidth}            
  43. % \changes{v1.2a}{30 Nov 90}{replaced \typeout with \wlog}                      
  44. %                                                                               
  45. %\fi                                                                            
  46. %                                                                               
  47. % \title{A style option to adapt the standard \LaTeX\ document                  
  48. %        styles to A4 paper\thanks{This file                                    
  49. %        has version number \fileversion --                                     
  50. %        last revision \filedate, documentation dated \docdate.}}               
  51. %                                                                               
  52. % \author{Nico Poppelier}                                                       
  53. % \address{\TeX nique         \\                                                
  54. %          Washingtondreef 153\\                                                
  55. %          3564 KD Utrecht}                                                     
  56. % \netaddress{Poppelier@hutruu53.bitnet}                                        
  57. % \author{Johannes Braams}                                                      
  58. % \address{PTT Research Neher Laboratories\\                                    
  59. %          P.O. Box 421\\                                                       
  60. %          2260 AK Leidschendam}                                                
  61. % \netaddress{JL_Braams@pttrnl.nl}                                              
  62. %                                                                               
  63. % \date{Printed \today}                                                         
  64. %                                                                               
  65. % \maketitle                                                                    
  66. %                                                                               
  67. % \begin{abstract}                                                              
  68. %   This article describes a new style option that can be used with the         
  69. %   document styles that are distributed with the \LaTeX\ distributions.        
  70. %   It modifies the page layout to conform to the paper format most             
  71. %   commonly used in Europe, portrait A4.                                       
  72. % \end{abstract}                                                                
  73. %                                                                               
  74. % \section{Introduction}                                                        
  75. %                                                                               
  76. % This file is based on the document style options \verb+A4.sty+ and            
  77. % \verb+A4wide.sty+, which can be found in the Rochester style archive.         
  78. % The original style option \verb+A4.sty+ we started from was written by        
  79. % John Pavel, and is dated May 1987. This option only changes the vertical      
  80. % size of the text somewhat, by increasing the number of lines on a page.       
  81. % The style option \verb+A4wide.sty+ was written by Jean-Francois Lamy,         
  82. % and is dated July 1986. This option only increases the width of the text.     
  83. %                                                                               
  84. % \section{Goals and design decisions}                                          
  85. %                                                                               
  86. % As many people before us, we found the page layout as implemented in the      
  87. % standard \LaTeX\ document styles too much geared towards the                  
  88. % American-sized paper, which is somewhat wider than A4 paper, but also         
  89. % noticeably less high.                                                         
  90. %                                                                               
  91. % Our goal was to get a page layout that was suitable for A4 paper, and         
  92. % produced legible texts. There are a number of layout parameters that          
  93. % influence the legibility of a text. A parameter of major importance is        
  94. % the number of words (or characters) on a line. The maximum number of          
  95. % words per line is ten to twelve for optimal legibility, a rule-of-thumb       
  96. % that can be found in typographic literature (we used~\cite{treebus}).         
  97. % This results in a number of characters per line which lies somewhere          
  98. % between sixty and seventy.                                                    
  99. %                                                                               
  100. % Another important parameter is the amount of white space surrounding the      
  101. % text. Here we have to distinguish between texts that are printed              
  102. % one-sided