{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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Oneside cover within a twosided LaTeX document
I'm writing my thesis and I'd like to have a onesided cover while the rest of the document is twoside, so to obtain the text and figures well-centered within the cover. Here is my main .tex file:
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Changing document format regardless of the document class!
Is there any way to change the format of a document such as single/double column, margins, etc regardless of the documentclass used?
I am using iopart.cls and it does not have a twocolumn option. ...
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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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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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Tikz Nodes in margin gets overwritten by page-wide tikz environments
I'm trying to improve the typesetting of openly licensed books created by my company. We do the typesetting of all our books with LaTeX. The design of these books requires coloured environments that ...
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pgfplots trim to axis area even with extra ticklabels
I have a plot with extra x tick labels on top in pgfplots that i wish to display in a figure at the top of my page.
I wish to have the top of the actual axis rectangle directly at the top, with the ...
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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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Is there an algorithm to determine the best layout and font size for a specific screen?
If I have a 4:3 7" tablet with a 200PPI screen (as an example), could you algorithmically make a TeX template that would be readable on the screen fullsize without zooming?
It would be great if there ...
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Horizontal margins for margin notes in the tufte classes
From the picture underneath you can see that the tufte class does not provide horizontal margins for the margin notes. Thus the margin notes can go beyond the \textheigth. Is that normal or is it a ...
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Inconsistent margins using columns in beamer
Compare the two slides generated by the following code.
\documentclass[t]{beamer}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\lipsum
\end{frame}
\begin{frame}
\begin{columns}[T]
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Indicating the beginning of a paragraph with a ¶ just inside the margin
How does one most easily typeset a paragraph marker inside the margin, at the beginning of every paragraph?
There are different practices regarding the indication of paragraph boundaries.
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Decrease top margin of some chapters
I'm finishing my thesis in LaTeX, using class "book". I use a 1.5 line stretch with \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.5}. Everything is ok, but I'd like the Abstract chapter (\chapter*{Abstract}) to ...
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How to add binding space to memoir twoside
I'm using the LED template to MSc which uses memoir twoside.
I need to print it and it requires extra margins for binding.
How do I simply add the extra space on the spine side of the page?
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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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How to set `footskip` on a landscape page?
I'm using geometry and pdflscape to have a particular page in landscape (detailed here).
However, setting footskip via \newgeometry{..., footskip = 1cm} does nothing, because the system still assumes ...
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Asymmetrical layout in two-sided document
I use two-sided document mode in Book class KOMA Script. It works well in the sense that the ToC, chapters, titles starts from the odd pages. Exactly we I need in a book.
In a recent book I need to ...
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Margin notes on both left and right?
I've been trying to put margin notes in both the left and the right margins at the same time. My attempts have gone something like:
Lorem{\reversemarginpar\marginpar{Left}} ipsum ...
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CD Booklet: variable margins between pages in pdfpages
I am trying to print a CD booklet, that will be stapled in the center of the pages.
To that end I am printing the pages double-sided on a4 paper and cut them.
When there are more than a
few physical ...
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How to do topmargin and bottonmargin in twocolumn page
I need to correct the top and botton margin to 1 cm in twocolumn page. I tried to use \usepackage[framemethod=TikZ]{mdframed}, but it doesn’t correct work for two column.
%define document type
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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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how can I correct the margin space in a journal manuscript?
I have a problem with preparing the manuscript in the latex macro pachakge. I put the svjour2.cls. (Springer latex class) and svglov2.clo in the TEX file’s location. However, after execution, the ...
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put a footnote just in down margin no near of body text
i want put footnote just margin down no near body text
i find this where i can handle the space between body text and down margin but is hard calculate space for all my footnotes
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Text width in 1st and 2nd glossary is different?
I am a latex beginner, so would appreciate your help.
My problem: in my thesis I have two glossaries: Glossary and Acronyms.
The Format of Glossary is ok, but in Acronyms - textwidth is too narrow.
In ...
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Why are manual offsets needed in the ticket package?
When I use the ticket package, the boxes it prints are significantly shifted towards (and past) the right and bottom margins.
It seems that the package author itself had the same problem. He ...
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Verbatim and alltt goes off page
My verbatim environment allows text to go way beyond margins and off the page, I am using the \begin{alltt} version though. Below is my entire preamble:
\documentclass{llncs}
\usepackage{graphicx}
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