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How to have headers, section headings, and figures expand into the margin?

I am interested in the following page layout. How to have headers in margins (up to margin) Is it possible to start section headings from margin How to set figures occupy the margins. I can ...
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Why doesn't a 17cm x 25cm picture fit on a 17cm x 25cm page?

Why doesn't this tikz picture fit on the first page of the document? \documentclass{report} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage[showframe, centering, text={17cm, 25cm}]{geometry} \begin{document} ...
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Top margin, memoir class and geometry package

I'm trying to set a very basic front page for a document with the MWE below. I'd like to have a vertical stripe running along the left margin and have all the margins set to 0pt. The layout is based ...
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Setting up page dimensions in LaTeX

I generally try typeset a document in LaTeX and then take a print out. Since I am not familiar with setting up the page dimensions, when I take print out on an A4 paper, lot of gaps are left. So can ...
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Different margins for odd and even pages, but not mirrored with memoir

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}{*} ...
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Inconsistent margins using fancyhdr and geometry

For my homework assignments I usually use the fancyhdr package to create a header that contains the group (A, B, C etc), homework title, my name + student number and the date. Besides that I ...
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Convert MS word margins into geometry package margins

I would like to convert the following margins that I have found in my MS word document to geometry package. Top: 2.38cm Bottom: 2.38cm Inside: 2.29cm Outside: 1.52cm Gutter: 0cm Here is ...
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Createspace template for a pocket book

I have been used createspace (GitHub) package but that is not giving me the desired results. I have attempted to use the geometry package with the following code: \usepackage[paperwidth=5.325in, ...
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Change margins for title page [duplicate]

I am trying to change the margins for the title page - especially the top margin of the title page. How do I go about decreasing this? So, in my report, on the first page (title), the heading has a ...
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How to enlarge the header of a fancy page style? [closed]

I am using a fancy page style for my report. I am using the following code to set the width of the body: \usepackage[left=3cm, right=2.5cm, top=2.65cm, bottom=2.65cm]{geometry} However, the bar in ...
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How can I reduce the left margin in the documentclass hitec?

I am quite aware of the package geometry, but it does not seem to play nice with the hitec document class. I have looked at related questions How to reduce the margins and How can I change the margins ...
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Dimensions of the pages [duplicate]

I have used the simple dimensions top, bottom, left and right to scale all pages of my document with the geometry package. Suppose I want a few pages with different scaling and a few pages with ...
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Bad margins while printing

I'm using geometry package like this: \usepackage[landscape]{geometry} \newgeometry{twocolumn, left=0.25cm, right=0.25cm, top=0.8cm, bottom=0.4cm} and fancyhdr package like this: ...
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My footer disappears when I increase headheight

I have created a custom simple layout with the fancyhdr package. Because the header I must use is somewhat big, LaTeX instructed me to increase the headheight to at least a minimum value. The problem ...
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What would the equivalent \setlength commands be for letter and A4 paper?

If one were type setting a business letter on A4 paper he might use: \setlength{\textheight}{215mm} \setlength{\textwidth}{160mm} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt} \setlength{\topmargin}{-20pt} ...
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Custom geometry for a first chapter page?

On normal pages I have header and no footer. On first chapter page -- I have footer (with page number) and no header. Hence I need: \newgeometry{top=2cm, bottom=1.2cm, left=1.5cm, right=1.7cm} for ...
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Odd-even margin

I am writing a book and I need to set the odd/even margin on the binding side. \usepackage[top=2cm, bottom=2cm, left=1cm, right=1cm, headsep=14pt]{geometry} I need left = 2.1cm for odd pages and ...
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Attempts to manually change \linewidth ignored by LaTeX

I was going to try to answer the question: How can I change the geometry of a page on the chapter header page only, and return to normal on the next page? It didn't seem like it should be too ...
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How can I change the geometry of a page on the chapter header page only, and return to normal on the next page?

Edit: It would appear that I wasn't clear in my reasoning as to why I wanted to do this.. I would like to design a way that I can have a chapter intro page that is full width, so I can fill it up ...
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How can I change the margins in LaTeX? [duplicate]

How do I change the margin of all pages? I want the latex page be .25 in margin around all the pages.
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1answer
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Change behavior of geometry for all pages

I'm using the llncs document class and wanted to change the margin of all pages, using the geometry package. I use the following command: ...
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geometry options problem

I am using geometry package with \LoadClass[twocolumn]{article}. But when I use geometry, the options for left,right,top,bottom are effecting only in even pages not in odd pages. How can i change ...
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How to avoid text overflowing below bottom margin?

My document contains a title page followed by some text. In order to create my title page, I have to change the page margins on the title page using \newgeometry, and after the title page I return to ...
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How to change page margins but keep the placement of the pagemark?

I use the package geometry to adjust the page margins for my needs. However, the first page should be different. To accomplish this, I used \newgeometry, \restoregeometry which works fine, except that ...
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Adjust margins for BibTeX using LyX

I'm working on my thesis. Most of the new chapters etc start with a 2" margin on the first page. However, the Bibliography is supposed to start with an 1" margin. I left the document's default margins ...
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Change marginpar for each page

I want to be able to change the marginpar and right values for each page, depending if the page has notes or not. MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[top=3cm, bottom=3cm, left=3cm, right=8cm, ...
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Standard way of handling oversize pages?

In a book project, using \geometry{letterpaper}, there are occasional places where an oversize diagram has to be included — one much wider than a normal page — without being reduced or spread across ...
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Slight discrepancy in left/right margins

This is what I'm using: \usepackage[paper=a4paper,twoside=true,lmargin=4cm,rmargin=4cm,bindingoffset=0cm]{geometry} For some reasons, when I print out my document, there seems to be a slight 1-2mm ...
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Page margins problem with the title page and rest of the pages in the chapter

I am writing a thesis, and the university has some rules. The word Chapter should be 2in from the top of the page, and the for the rest of the pages, the text should start 1.25in from the top edge. I ...
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Overriding printer scaling defaults from within LaTeX

Edited version of question I have to produce a series of documents that need to be printed without scaling. The target users are likely to have low-level computer skills and will overlook ...
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Changing text area for Table of Contents in Koma Script

My friend is just about to submit her Diplomarbeit (German M.Sc.) and she bumped into a tiny corner of Koma-Script. The Table of Contents was just a tiny bit too long. Thus, one chapter was forced ...
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Increasing left margins when using scrbook with geometry

I am producing a very large book and need to shift the pages just a little to the right because of excess content generated in the left margin. I cannot have it set both margins bigger as the problem ...
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1answer
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How to set page geometry for a single page only? [closed]

I want to change the geometry for a single page only. I set the geometry for the whole document using: \usepackage[left=1cm,right=2cm,top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,footnotesep=0.5cm]{geometry} The ...
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Different bottom border value for footnotes

I'm using the geometry package to define the borders of my document: \usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.9cm,top=3.5cm,bottom=3cm,footnotesep=0.5cm]{geometry} That means the bottom of the text and the ...
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votes
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Longtable doesn't work well with geometry [closed]

I would like to produce document with multiple longtables inside. I need to customize my headers with fancyhdr placing graphics inside it and modyfying page geometry. But then longtables have problems ...
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votes
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How do you increase the margin width of a latex document? [duplicate]

I am not able to fit my equation onto one line so I want to increase the margin of the page (it looks like it is quite big by default anyway. Does anyone know how to do this? Here is my template ...
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votes
1answer
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How to change the margins of ‎the only‎ first page ‎of‎ ‎‎each‎ ‎‎‎chapter‎?‎

I'm‎ using ‎the ‎geometry package in the ‎book‎ class‎ ‎and now I ‎want‎ the margins of the first page of each chapter ‎to‎ be, for example, top=50mm, ‎bottom=50mm‎, ‎left=50mm‎, ‎‎right=50mm‎ and the ...
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Why are default LaTeX margins so big?

I've read that—unless I know a lot about typesetting—I shouldn't change the margins of a LaTeX document. The default margin size of the article class is really big and it feels like a lot of space is ...
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vote
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KOMA-Script footer margins

I am doing one-page documents with title and I need more space so all text can be put on that page. I achieve this by \typearea{12}. What happens is that the footer margin gets absurdly large (say, ...
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customs margins of my paper [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Latex margins, need specific advice for publishing specifications I'm trying to set the margins of my paper using geometry. I would set the margin of binding 3.5cm ...
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Change geometry for 'empty' page style only [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Change \textwidth and \textheight in mid-document Change page layout after first page I need to make the margins on the first page of my article larger than those on ...
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1answer
644 views

Change page layout after first page

currently I'm trying to prepare a letter head with XeLaTeX. The first page of the letter should have a sidebar on the right. For this sidebar, the text width should be shrinked to approx. 80% of its ...
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votes
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How to use the geometry package with newlfm documents?

I am using the newlfm letter documentclass, and try loading the geometry package. This returns the following error: ! LaTeX Error: Command \geometry already defined. What I want to do is put more ...
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Arithmetic in arguments to the geometry package

I'd like to use the geometry package to auto-crop the output of my LaTeX (so that it looks bigger on-screen as I'm editing). I have found a way to remove the margins completely and brutally: ...
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418 views

Text placed below bottom margin that is not footnote

I'm using package geometry to specify global document margins: \usepackage[scale=0.82, top=1.5cm, bottom=2.5cm]{geometry} But I have a piece of information that I would like to add on first page on ...
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1answer
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trying to set text where section header has different margin and textwidth from section text

i am trying to set some text where the section header has a different margin and textwidth from the section text. the screenshot shows a mockup of how i would like the final layout to look ...
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Geometry Package - Layoutoffset: Distinction Between Odd and Even Pages Possible?

Currently I'm preparing a book for publishing. My printer wants a non-circumferential bleed around the pages, 0.125" at the top, bottom and outer side, but no bleed at the inner side. As far as I have ...
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votes
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Can I add border margin into beamer frame body

In default, beamer class loads the geometry package. And I dont know how to map the \paperwidth and \textwidth to its mechanism. My requirement is very simple. I want to add some margin to {top, left, ...
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votes
1answer
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Combine geometry and KOMA-Script’s DIV calculation (or: Make \newgeometry only set the explictitly given values)

I wonder if it is possible to combine geometry and the type area calculation of KOMA-Script. I’d like to use the calculated area but set (e.g.) the top margin to 1cm, without touching the other ...
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votes
1answer
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Specifying dimensions of text

For a submission requirement I need that my document exactly fills a box of m x n inches. Does anybody know how I can specify this in LaTeX?

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