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I need a help with this page layout:

  • top/bottom margins: 2cm for all pages
  • on even pages: 3.5cm - 2cm
  • on odd pages: 2cm - 2cm

I tried:

\setlrmarginsandblock{3cm}{2cm}{*}
\setulmarginsandblock{2cm}{2cm}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout

But this doesn't resolve my problem. What's is the solution using memoir package?

Micha
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    Welcome to TeX.sx! A tip: If you indent lines by 4 spaces or [enclose words in backticks ```](http://meta.tex.stackexchange.com/q/863), they'll be marked as code, as can be seen in my edit. You can also highlight the code and click the "code" button (with "{}" on it). – Xavier May 01 '13 at 04:57
  • have you tried to use the geometry package? – Micha May 01 '13 at 05:07
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    If you're writing a book/report (or similar), this may not a good idea because floats may move from even pages to odd and back on subsequent compilations, without reaching a fixpoint. –  May 01 '13 at 05:36
  • if this is what you want, this is a problem TeX can't solve; you might be better off with a professional DTP application. – Nils L May 01 '13 at 07:04
  • As long as you don't require the paper size to change within the document, a combination of the geometry and everypage packages should do the trick... – jub0bs May 01 '13 at 07:24
  • @Jubobs: Have you seen that work? Comments like these, and my experience described in that question, suggest that it isn't that easy. – Nils L May 01 '13 at 07:35
  • @NilsL No, I haven't found anything of the sort yet, but I still don't think it's impossible. – jub0bs May 01 '13 at 07:49
  • the reason this can't work is that when TeX starts breaking a paragraph, it doesn't yet know about the change of type area that you're planning for the upcoming page break. That's partly because TeX doesn't even want to know about that page break at all. It breaks a paragraph into lines, and only after that's done, it distributes the lines over the page(s). Paragraph breaking and page breaking are two separate things in TeX, and you can't just feed information to and fro between the two. »none of the experts in the last 20 years overcame that limitation« – Nils L May 01 '13 at 08:12
  • @Nils I stand corrected. Thanks for the link. – jub0bs May 01 '13 at 20:18

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