{margins} is about dealing with (above all, changing) the margins of (whole) pages and, conversely, the width and height of the textblock and its positioning on the page. Popular packages are {geometry} and {typearea}. For changing the "margins" in the middle of a page, use {indentation} instead.
Questions tagged [margins]
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Setting exact margins
I am writing a document for which I need the margin to be exactly as follows: left, right, top and bottom text margin all equal to 1in, distance from bottom of the paper to page number equal to 0.75in (I don't have any footnote or header to set).
I…
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Change \textwidth and \textheight in mid-document
I set my \textwidth and \textheight in the preamble and would like to change both for some pages. How can this be done? E.g., the following example for \textwidth appears to work for the page number, but not for the text:
\documentclass{article}…
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margins of book class
I would like to know what are the margins (top, right,bottom and left; in meters) that are by default assigned for thebook class. Is there a command or a way to know them?
Mazzy
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A package to help with layout generation? Graph paper in the background?
Once in a while I have to create a layout given by several parameters, such as "left margin 3cm, logo 4 cm from the right margin, 2cm high" etc. Now I use geometry package an other helpers to create a layout, but I need to print out the result in…
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One inch margins and the geometry package
Using
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
I can create a margin of 1 inch around my document. What would be the equivalent commands if I used the native LaTeX commands such as \textwidth, \evensidemargin, etc?
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Make text block wider in A4 page
I'm struggling to fit a wider text into an A4 page. This page isn't going to be printed as a book, it is simply for internal use, so I don't mind if the text occupies more % of the page. I've tried different commands, to various effects, but nothing…
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can LaTeX help with book binding?
Recently, a colleague of mine has done his own book binding. He has used LibreOffice. I am wondering if LaTeX could be used and if it could provide more assistance than LibreOffice.
The problem that I see, if I understand the binding process…
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Display text area markers
I’d like to display those small makers in the edges of my text areas (i.e. the main area and the head and foot areas). Since I’ve got no idea how they are called or how to describe them, here’s a picture:
Is there a package that does that?…
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Another body text in the margin
I saw a book that besides its main content had the text from another book squeezed in the bottom margin. I'm wonder whether this is possible to do with LaTeX? More specifically I'm wondering whether it's possible to have two separate text and…
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Why isn't \textwidth the width of the text?
I'm trying to display two things (a bordered box and a shaded box), both of which stretch across the entire text area - that is, since I have 1cm margins, the box should start 1cm from the left edge of the page and continue until 1cm from the right…
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Working with margins
I'm redacting a document, adding the correct tags and syntax for LaTeX. I have come with a "problem" with margins. Or rather with environments that answer differently to margins, making them appear as not organized and consistent. It's not a fatal…
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Draw a vertical line on the margin across several pages
I want to draw a vertical line on the margin. The line may be able to continue to the next page(s) and must not cut with the end of the current page.
I'd prefer to use an environment or something like
\startline
% Text, math, figures…
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Change margins in a0poster class
I want to make a poster using the a0poster package. I want to modify the text margins, so the text should be wider. I'm using boxes in a portrait, three column poster, but I have problem trying to get boxes bigger (one white page and after the…
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Typeset material outside the logical page
I use the geometry package to define the physical page and the logical page sizes. For editing purposes I would like to print some material outside the logical page, i.e, outside the crop marks.
I have seen that on the texbook, where Knuth prints…
TeXtnik
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How to have different margins on odd and even pages?
I want to make a book which has the following specifications for margins for odd and even pages.
How I can do this in letter paper?
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