Why are default LaTeX margins so big?I've read that—unless I know a lot about typesetting—I shouldn't change the margins of a LaTeX document. The default margin size of the article class is really big and it feels like a lot of space is waste. Thanks to the geometry package, it is simple to change the margins, but I'm not sure if I should. Can someone tell me why the default margin size is so big? Also, why shouldn't I change the mar
