{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.
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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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How to set title and main matter pages independently, with memoir
I am setting up the page layout using memoir commands:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[charter]{mathdesign}
\begin{document}
\setlrmarginsandblock{20mm}{10mm}{*} ...
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Different upper margin for the second page of table of contents [closed]
I am writing a thesis, and I need to change the upper margin for the second page for the table of contents only. The university demands 2in upper margin for first page of ToC, followed by 1.25in upper ...
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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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How can I increase the width of the document? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
beamer: frame without decorations, with custom margin
I want increase the width of the document. I have to put four images in one slide. Two in one row each, because of ...
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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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bigfoot footnotes overrun text area [closed]
In writing a rather complex critical edition, I often encounter problems with XeLaTeX typesetting bigfoot footnotes so that they overrun the text area and spill into the bottom margin. How can I ...
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1answer
247 views
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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1answer
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Can I have bigger margins on pages containing only floats?
Latex sets the margins to give a good reading experience for text. For pages containing only figures this generally does not matter and I would like my figures to fill as much space as possible, in ...
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1answer
167 views
Centering the frontpage using memoir
I'm using memoir (two-side layout). I have the problem that my front page is centered with respect to the margins, which are not equal in left and right side. \begin{center} will not solve this, since ...
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How can get rid of margins and minimize white space to fully use a page in LaTeX?
I want to create a formulary in LaTeX. I can use it at the exam and it has do be at maximum a page recto-verso. I don't want margins (little margins for the print, no more). I want to minimize the ...
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Sidenote formatting
I want to have sidenotes (alternate footnotes) in the margin. I found this code on the Latex Community website.
\newcommand{\sidenote}[1]{%
...
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1answer
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memoir margins and hyperref
I'm trying to use the hyperref package with the memoir class but the bottom margin of the document is no longer 2 cm as I set it. Rather, it seems like there is no margin at all. When I remove 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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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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2answers
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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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1answer
286 views
Changing Margins in Stockton Beamer Theme
I am creating a presentation with beamer using Stockton theme. You can find tex file here
I have two questions to ask. How can I change the margins of a slide? For the example below, I would like to ...
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1answer
119 views
ConTeXt enumerate in margin
For short answer quiz, I like to provide an answerblank in right margin with same number as the question:
In pdfLaTeX I do this with a newcommand:
...
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1answer
176 views
Different margins for text and figures
Is it possible to have it so that the text has smaller left and right margins than figures? I am using memoir.
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1answer
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Adjust typeblocksize in light of paper size
I'm trying to figure out how to adjust the typeblocksize in memoir in light of the ratio of \paperheight to \paperwidth.
Right now, I have
\settypeblocksize{*}{\lxvchars}{1.414}
to adjust the ...
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1answer
98 views
How can I get just the table of contents to take the full page width?
I am using the template provided from http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/karrer_thesistemplate for my master thesis. The template is built so that there are margin notes at each page and is using the book ...
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1answer
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Automatically change the text width for all table environments using memoir
I'd like to redefine the table environment in a document I'm writing so that the tables and captions are wider than the text block. I'm using the memoir class, and an example given in the manual is
...
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1answer
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Resetting column-formatted margins after \printindex
When I make an index, or two, and print them at the end of a document, they show up in columns, just I would like. However, when adding further sections after the printed index, they continue ...
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Entering text in the margins in enumerate environment
I currently trying to create a template that I could use for tests, and one thing I've always liked is when the possible points a question was worth was listed right next to the question itself.
In ...
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1answer
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Change fancyhdr settings in preamble after they have already been set
I have a "standard" preamble (portion in the code below that I indicated that I really don't want to change) that I am trying to reuse. But, I want to adjust the right margin for one particular ...
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1answer
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Filling out page with tabular (width and height) with evently
I'm trying to make sticky labels with LaTeX. I thought this would be pretty simple because of LaTeX's nice support of absolute units, but it turned out to be quite difficult. This is the specification ...
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1answer
86 views
reverting between marginnote margins and 'normal' margins
How can I revert to normal margins while using marginnote s? In other words, in some pages of my document where I won't use marginnotes, I want the margins to be normal, as though I'm not using ...
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1answer
290 views
How do put a header inside the margins?
I have to create a document that obeys the following guidelines:
"Margins must be set at a minimum of ¾" (1.87 cm);
Your name must appear outside the set margins of the page, at the top
...
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2answers
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Multiple border around page
I was thinking about giving a finishing touch to my resume by adding a border to the document in black color. I tried using \fancybox but not impressed with the output.
...
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3answers
348 views
How to set colored ruled margins for different pages?
I want to write a LaTeX document, and I want to have document rules (colored margins distinguishing sections and/or even/odd pages).
Here is a model of what I have in mind:
How can this be ...
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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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1answer
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Classicthesis Vertical Margins
I've been using the classicthesis package to write my master's thesis and now that I was getting the entire thing ready for printing I ran into some trouble. The thing is that I'm not really satisfied ...
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Verse package typesets in the left margin
When using the verse environment with the verse package, the \flagverse are typeset in the margin:
\begin{verse}
\begin{altverse}
\flagverse{1.} Quel est l'enfant qui est né ce soir\\
Inconnu des ...
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Fit table a bit outside of text margins
Following my post here, how could I use the command:
\resizebox{\linewidth}{!}{...}
to place a table a bit outside of the text margins?
EDIT:
At the moment this works fine for me. My only problem ...
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1answer
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Defect of measuring into the count of alphabet width
Question:
Why in the example below I get (with CM at 10pt) \alphabet=342.93138pt and
\myalphabetwidth=342.6536pt why I have this difference between the
two measures? What is the more correct?
...
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Set Table height to fixed height
I found the \resizebox command but I don't want to scale my table. I want to be able to set it to X height and have it stay there. Is there a way to set the height of a table and leave it there no ...
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votes
1answer
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Subtract height from column
The following latex example is kicking the third table down to the second page. But I don't need it on the second page, I need it all on the first and currently it's set at 3.5in but I really need it ...
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memoir margins setup [closed]
I wrote a little "book" by using the Memoir class.
I'd need to have no more than 35 chars per line and no more than 70 chars on a columns.
Is there some kind of settings to choose the best page ...
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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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votes
2answers
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how to decrese space hight (margin) between equations
I want to decrese spaces(margin) hight before and after equations
because i found big space when text end and display formula appears
or between equations each in separate line
also i want to do the ...
2
votes
2answers
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How can I make the size of the PDF equal to the of the chessboard?
I have this piece of LaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview}
\setlength\PreviewBorder{2mm}
% Source: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/15278/5645
...
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1answer
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How to set the page layout dimensions in ConTeXt?
Using the instructions found in the page design chapter of the ConTeXt user manual, I have attempted to set my own page dimensions, but have not been able to understand the instructions. For e.g., ...
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votes
2answers
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References in margins `biblatex`
How can I use biblatex and not have the references run into the margins? I've seen some posts and solutions to this problem pertaining to URLs but I'm not using web links so it's a different problem. ...
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vote
1answer
271 views
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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vote
1answer
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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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0answers
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width=\textwidth yet plots overlaps with margin [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
pgfplots: how can I scale to text width?
Without using such command as trim axis=left or scale only axis, I
would expect the following plots to be contained in the text ...
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0answers
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Printing Checks with Latex [closed]
This is my first time working with Latex and I'm using Texmaker to create it in. I was hoping to find some GUI Editing tool that kind of let me drag and drop things where I wanted them but couldn't ...
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votes
1answer
483 views
margin caption and subfloat
I'm desperately trying to get a workable setup of margin caption and subfloats. I use mcaption for margin caption which provides an environment which one wraps the inner content of the float in. ...
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votes
3answers
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Rule in textarea every n points
I am currently developing a new layout. This must be typeset on a grid, and every line starts at a multiple of 13bp from the top of the text area. To help me check, I'd like to have rules every 13bp ...
