gregory
The OP simply asked about the borders, which - as stated - had nothing to do with Uncle Al or Frieda - the first ones printed had plain borders with just the titles. I'm not particularly aware that the glyphs etc were there at their behest - they were added later - who knows whose idea they were.What do you want to trim off? Some people trim off the titles, Hebrew letters, and astrological symbols because they don't know what they mean. They are there for a purpose. If you understand what they mean and have memorized them, then they are superfluous and might as well be chopped off. Otherwise, removing them is rather ostrich-like. The reasoning goes like this: I don't understand these weird symbols, so I'll simply get rid of them: problem solved. That is only deluding oneself.
This was the first layout. None of those things were there.
And you CANNOT see the geometry properly with borders.
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