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How do I change my margins and spacing to fit the PhD thesis requirements of University XYZ?
My Latex file looks like the following:e
\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,oneside]{report}
\usepackage{t1enc}
\usepackage{alltt}
\usepackage{epsfig}
\usepackage[english, finnish, swedish]{babel}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{eurosym} % To get a euro sign: \euro{}
\usepackage{verbatim}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\usepackage{supertabular}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage[breaklinks=true]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{pdfborder = {0 0 0},citecolor=black,filecolor=black,linkcolor=black,urlcolor=black}
\raggedbottom%Do.
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=C}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{5}
%\setlength{\belowcaptionskip}{6pt}
\usepackage[belowskip=-15pt,aboveskip=0pt]{caption}
\setlength{\intextsep}{10pt plus 2pt minus 2pt}
\parskip 1ex
\parindent 0pt
%All the words with special hyphenation:
\hyphenation{di-gi-taa-li-sta yksi-suun-tai-sta}
\hyphenpenalty=5000
\tolerance=1000
% Command
\begin{document}
\evensidemargin 19mm
\oddsidemargin 19mm
\textwidth 155mm
%%%%%%%%%% PREAMBLE + DOC SETTINGS ENDS %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
% By default, only up to 3rd level headers are numbered (e.g. 1.2.2.)
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4} % what headers are numbered
\setcounter{tocdepth}{4} %what headers are put in the TOC
%% -------------- ABSTRACT --------------
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\input{abstract_english}
% -------------- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & TOC --------------
\input{acknowledgement}
%\clearpage
\newpage
{\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont \tableofcontents}
\newpage
\phantomsection \label{listoftab}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Tables}
\listoftables
\newpage
\phantomsection \label{listoffig}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{List of Figures}
\listoffigures
\cleardoublepage
\newpage
\phantomsection \label{listofacronyms}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Abbreviations and Acronyms}
\input{acronyms}
\cleardoublepage
%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The main content starts here %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\parskip1ex
\parindent0mm
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\pagestyle{headings}
\input{chapter1}
\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Bibliography}
\bibliographystyle{plain}
\bibliography{mySources}
\label{pages-text}
\end{document}
Please forgive me if it looks a little more complicated that it should. It looks like this because its a common template for Masters Thesis.
Now the output looks like:
Now u should see that, there are too much space on both sides of the text. How may I reduce it and make the text wider?
Bye.

geometrypackage. I imagine this question has to be a duplicate of something, so don't be offended if it gets closed :) – cmhughes Apr 26 '12 at 07:54