I am writing my thesis and using the excellent classicthesis package. My university has strict margin guidelines for submission (left = 1.5in, right = 1in, top = 1in, bottom = 1in).
I played around a little using the areaset command to modify the textwidth and was able to get the right margins after some iterations. But i was wondering if anyone could help me with an elegant way to do it so that I can replicate it in the future for other specifications.
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Although, as others have said, this defeats the purpose of classicthesis, you can use the geometry package to setup whatever margins you wish:
\usepackage[left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in]{geometry}
answered Jul 4, 2011 at 12:39
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Although this may help in overwrite the margin settings, I'm curious to find where/which part in the .sty files of the package classicthesis where the margin width is defined. Dec 2, 2015 at 12:31
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You can find it in the source of classicthesis.sty, starts near line 238. Apparently margin settings are chosen w.r.t. paper size and selected font. Dec 3, 2015 at 9:03
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This gives me a clash. It says:
The package geometry has already been loaded with options: [] There has now been an attempt to load it with options [left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in] Adding the global options: ,left=1.5in,right=1in,top=1in,bottom=1in to your \documentclass declaration may fix this. Try typing <return> to proceed.Mar 10, 2016 at 17:17 -
When I use geometry to adjust the margins, the chapter numbers are not affected and disappear. Apr 19, 2016 at 15:05
classicthesis, which is to emulate the layout of The Elements of Typographic Style. I would usememoirinstead.Lulu. But I need the settings to comply with university requirements.