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I managed to change the page layout (equal left/right margins) of a thesis' frontispiece with:

\setlrmargins{*}{*}{1}
\checkandfixthelayout

and now I'd like to restore memoir's default page layout. How can I do that?

Alessandro Cuttin
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    Not tested, but maybe you can do the previous change inside a group. (Inside \begingroup \endgroup) and then it could be restored without commands. Ask me to delete if not work – koleygr Feb 24 '18 at 15:51
  • I don't think memoir supports different page layouts in the same document. You can do it with geometry, though. Do you know about frontespizio? – egreg Feb 24 '18 at 15:58
  • @koleygr can you please turn your comment into an answer? it seems to work! – Alessandro Cuttin Feb 24 '18 at 16:03
  • @egreg I successfully used frontespizio in the past! :) However, the title page required for my doctoral thesis is not easy to reproduce with frontespizio, and I opted for a manual reproduction of the word template provided by the university ;) – Alessandro Cuttin Feb 24 '18 at 16:07
  • I've found frontespizio very flexible. Is there a specimen for the title page? – egreg Feb 24 '18 at 16:17
  • Do just the titlepage as a standalone document and include it using package pdfpages. See https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Title_Creation#Integrating_the_title_page – Johannes_B Feb 24 '18 at 16:37
  • https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/363840/37907 – Johannes_B Feb 24 '18 at 16:39
  • @egreg here it is! http://www2.units.it/dott/files/EFFronte.doc – Alessandro Cuttin Feb 24 '18 at 16:46
  • And I told you that frontespizio is very flexible. ;-) – egreg Feb 24 '18 at 17:22
  • @egreg memoir supports different page layouts just like other classes do. I'm sure that I've said this before but can't recall where. If a document is onecolumn then \twocolumn make your changes \onecolumn. For a twocolumn document reverse the column change macros. (I got this from Donald Arseneau many years ago.) It works because LaTeX recalculates the layout whenever there is a switch between one and two columns. – Peter Wilson Feb 24 '18 at 19:39

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In latex, it is possible to make temporary changes or change temporary some variables by using \begingroup and \endgroup and do our changes between these two commands.

I am answering from a mobile and will improve the answer later.

In your case a \begingroup before the layout change and an \endgroup at the point you want to undo, could work, but be careful to redefine whatever variable possibly defined inside this group without \global or equivalent definition

Alessandro Cuttin
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koleygr
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  • Generally speaking you are right, but changing, for example. margins and textwidth, is problematic. TeX sets type using a specific layout, until the current page overflows. It then cuts off the current page and puts any cutoff text at the top of the next page WITHOUT CHANGING THE LAYOUT for that bit of text. It may then change the layout on the page for succeeding text. In general the layout can only be changed after the text for a page has been completely output and before the text for the following page is started. – Peter Wilson Feb 25 '18 at 20:50
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Not an answer to the specific problem, but here's how you can use frontespizio, given the template at http://www2.units.it/dott/files/EFFronte.doc

\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
\usepackage[norules,noadvisor]{frontespizio}

\begin{document}

\begin{frontespizio}
\begin{Preambolo*}
\usepackage{newtxtext}
\renewcommand{\frontinstitutionfont}{\fontsize{22}{24}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\frontdivisionfont}{\fontsize{18}{24}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\fronttitlefont}{\fontsize{20}{24}\bfseries}
\renewcommand{\frontsubtitlefont}{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\frontnamesfont}{\fontsize{14}{18}\selectfont}
\renewcommand{\frontfootfont}{\fontsize{14}{18}\bfseries}
\end{Preambolo*}
\Logo[3cm]{trieste}
\Istituzione{UNIVERSIT\`A DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE}
\Divisione{XLII CICLO DEL DOTTORATO DI RICERCA IN}
\Scuola{PENNUTISTICA}
\Titolo{TITOLO DELLA TESI}
\Sottotitolo{Settore scientifico-disciplinare: PEN/99}

\NCandidato{}
\Candidato{%
  \begin{minipage}{\textwidth}\centering
  \begin{tabular}{@{}l@{}}
  \normalfont DOTTORANDO \\
  \bfseries Alessandro Cuttin\\[2ex]
  \normalfont COORDINATORE \\
  \bfseries PROF. Frederick Frankenstein \\[2ex]
  \normalfont SUPERVISORE DI TESI \\
  \bfseries PROF. The Monster
  \end{tabular}
  \end{minipage}}
\Piede{ANNO ACCADEMICO 2017/2018}
\end{frontespizio}

\end{document}

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egreg
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The general method of changing a document's layout in the middle of it is:

\documentclass[...]{report}% or book or article or ...
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\twocolumn% if onecolumn document
% make your layout changes here
\onecolumn% if onecolumn document
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

This is because LaTeX recalculates the layout parameters when switching between one and two columns (I don't know about the multicolumn package). I originally got this many years ago from Donald Arseneau.

For the memoir class, as an example:

\documentclass[,...]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
% change the layout if you wish
\checkandfixthelayout
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1]
\twocolumn
\setlrmarginsandblock{3in}{*}{1}% increase the margins & reduce text width
\checkandfixthelayout
\onecolumn
\lipsum[1]
\end{document}

To get the details of memoir's original layout you could simply process:

\documentclass{memoir}
\checkandfixthelayout
\begin{document}
\end{document}

which will print all the values on the terminal.

Peter Wilson
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