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5 years ago Original comment by JoanneP (Bitbucket: joannep, GitHub: joannep).
imagine that I put the printed page in the papercutter. The slice would be at the 5.5" mark (i.e. 11in divided by two).
The desired final appearance would be that printed text didn't run all the way to the slice. You would want the final appearance on that 8.5" x 5.5" page to have a skidge of right margin Hence need for right margin.
It becomes really obvious when I print one recipe, then put the same piece of paper back in the printer, oriented the other way (rotate 180degrees) to print a second recipe on the same piece of paper ... so that when I hit it with papercutter, I get two printed recipes. The way you have it now, the long lines in the two recipes would "kiss" each other.
photo of my old recipe binder with my old (really really old) print format I developed so you get the long-term goal here (Not sure how to fix that this Comment has duplicate images, so please just deal ...)
Original report by JoanneP (Bitbucket: joannep, GitHub: joannep).
the two "half sheet" print layouts need to have a left margin of 5/8" to allow for hole-punching.
to look nice on a half-sheet of paper, the right margin should be set at 5" or 5 1/8" (right now text runs nearly all the way to paper cut)