Questions tagged [geometry]
{geometry} is a package that allows to change the margins of (whole) pages and, conversely, the width and height of the textblock and its positioning on the page.
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geometry package - setting margins on a specific page
I want to set the first page's margins differently from the rest of the document. What is the best way of doing this? I am using geometry package to adjust my margins.
Any help is appreciated, thank ...
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automatically change geometry with KOMA-pagestyles
I'm trying to change the geometry (namely the top/head height) automatically depending on the selected pagestyle.
The goal is to have a bigger backgroundpicture in the header for every new chapter. ...
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Set up twopage offset for different pages manually
Currently writing my thesis using the twoside report document class which pushes everything on an odd page to the left and everything on an even page to the right.
I have set up my document in a way ...
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Dynamically enlarge the height of a page [duplicate]
There is a way to dynamically enlarge a page in a LaTeX document? the thing I want is to have a document which will always have a single page, so the page should increase in height to hold all the ...
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Using bmargin to remove whitespace
I interpret this as telling me that bmargin is what removes the whitespace between the bottom of the document and the bottom figures. But if you run the code you will see that the whitespace is still ...
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Twoside documentclass: Underfull \vbox (badness 10000) has occurred while \output is active
I'm using the documentclass article with the option twoside in order to customize the header and the footer for even and odd pages with the fancyhdr package. The compilation works, but the problem is ...
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scrlttr2 and geometry: firsthead shifted to the right
I am using class scrlttr2 of KOMA-Script with a custom page layout via the geometry package. Unfortunately, this results in a small horizontal right-shift of my header. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass
%...
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How to set the new margin on the next page?
I have a large footer that needs to be placed on the first page of a document. To make it fit, I've used the geometry package and increased the bottom margin.
For the header/footer manipulation, I'm ...
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Unable to change page dimensions (Lualatex)
I would like my document to be 12 by 18 inches. I try the following (recommended here), compiling with Lualatex, and it seems to give a page which is still 8.5 by 11 inches.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Show only right side of main body frame layout through showframe
The option [showframe] for the geometry package makes nice lines so that we can see the frame layout of each page. What I want, however, is to only see the line that gives the right margin for the ...
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Override margin settings of revtex4
I would like to modify the left and right margins around the table in the following "code":
\documentclass[a4paper,preprint,aps,unsortedaddress]{revtex4}
\usepackage[top=2.5cm,bottom=2.5cm,left=3.5cm,...
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\newgeometry with elsarticle.cls
I am preparing an article with elsarticle.cls for an Elsevier Journal. Within the document, I need to reset geometry. I receive the error Undefined control sequence. \newgeometry MWE is as follows:
\...
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Pictures on horizontal page in a 2x2 grid with equal distances between them and the margins
I would like to add four pictures with slightly different aspect ratios on two rows on one horizontal page so that the distances between each picture and to the outer margin of the page are equal or ...
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Change paper size when using pdfx
I have the following MWE
\documentclass[cmyk]{article}
\usepackage[x-1a,pdf13]{pdfx}
\usepackage{geometry}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\geometry{%
paperwidth=96mm,
paperheight=96mm,
margin=3mm,...
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Declaring option a4paper in \documentclass produces different margins than declaring it in \geometry
I have seen a similar question at a4paper, where should I declare it? In document class or geometry? and the selected answer there implies that there is no difference in whether we use \documentclass[...
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Set length parameter based on KOMA \ifthispageodd
Background
I'm using scrrept and titlesec (changing from titlesec to pure koma is on my todo list) any I've redefined \chapter to be a full page affair. The issue is when I'm using twosided.
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Different top and bottom margins for odd or even pages
I have a two-sided landscape document that I intend to bind on the long (top/bottom) edge. To leave space for the binding, I would like a larger top margin on odd-numbered pages and a larger bottom ...
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Dynamic paperheight (crop to content)
Is it possible to have the paperheight of the document be determined automatically to fit the content?
A small working example:
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt,oneside]{book}
\usepackage{geometry}
\...
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\newgeometry is not remembered when writing a new page
I'm using the package geometry to customize my document. I specify the geometry I want using \newgeometry after a title that I will make later.
If I do that using the code below, the first page is ...
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How to Change Bottom Margins on Specific Page Style?
I'm using fancyhdr. My fancy page style has no footer (only footnotes). However, on chapter titles, I am using a plain pagestyle, which has the footnote on the bottom. In any case, I would like to ...
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How to set first few pages in thesis (report class) as one sided?
First 7 pages of my thesis needed to be printed on odd pages and one-sided. My report class is set as two sided. How do I change this?
I had earlier seen in another post a way to change it to two ...
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Set different margins with twoside in LaTeX
I am trying to set different margins for the first page of my document. As I am not sure about the content of the first page, the \afterpage command has been used to achieve the required effect. ...
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Document margins with a4paper: documentclass vs. geometry
Using pdflatex, I would like to set an A4 article. I believed (from this answer) that it did not matter whether I use
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
or
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[...
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How to set page numbers within left/right margins using classicthesis and geometry [duplicate]
I'm using classicthesis and the geometry package for the margins. The page numbers are top outer, but should be within ALL of the margins. I've successfully got the page numbers within the top and ...
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Layout: new-geometry with global and local options
I have a document with pages of different 'headheight's.
\newgeometry{...} seems to overwrite (almost) all options set in \usepackage [...] {geometry}.
How do I achieve that e.g.
margin = 3cm, ...
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Marginnote Large Fonts are Misaligned from Text
I am still in the process of making a similar style kind of book to https://fac.ksu.edu.sa/sites/default/files/numerical_analysis_9th.pdf. This mostly includes having section numbers as well as ...
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Package to fit pages around chapters
Is there a package that would adjust the geometry of each page of a LaTeX document to contain all material up to the next explicit pagebreak? (ideally this would make pages contain entire sections, or ...
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LaTeX Error: Option clash for package geometry
I am doing my thesis and a colleague passed me the format with which I should write my thesis, but the moment to execute I get an error with the package geometry on line where it is written \spacing{1....
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How to modify the headsepline (KOMA) regarding its position (centering/flushleft)
Consider this MWE
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}% sets page style scrheadings
\newlength\ratio
\setlength{\ratio}{2cm}
\usepackage[ % page layout modifications
paper=...
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Set right column blank for every page without affecting current template
I want to leave the right side of each page blank for taking notes.
A simple way is to use one-column layout instead and change the right margin,
but using geometry package will affect current ...
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Unable to change page margins
I used the geometry package but it doesn't seem to do anything to my document.
\documentclass{article}
\title{Competition Aircraft Energy Breakdown}
\author{Bill Chen}
\date{2018-11-21}
\usepackage{...
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3D Surface Plot
I am using TIKZ (tikz-3d) plot to create a cartesian grid and to create a surface(a section of a sphere) passing through the surface.
First I create a 3d cartesian mesh using the following code:-
\...
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Mimicking Latex Style
I recently stumbled across the mathematics textbook Numerical Analysis 9th edition by Burden and Faires and I thoroughly enjoyed the style of it. I was able to find a link too here: https://fac.ksu....
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fancyhdr messing up the document margins
I wish to add header/footer to a document in landscape format. The document is basically a long table with few notes. Consider the following example:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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the latest version of geometry.sty
Good day to all,
I want this extension of the latest updates. however, from CTAN the file is in .dtx and I am not well versed to convert to .sty.
Anybody could advice? or I do appreciate if someone ...
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How to use 'includefoot' of 'geometry' only on 'plain.scrheadings' pages and not 'scrheadings' pages?
I have the following layout:
\documentclass{scrbook}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[left=1.9cm, right=1.9cm, bottom=2.23cm, top=2.23cm]{geometry}% specific requirements
\usepackage[markcase=...
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How to set exact margins in KOMA-Script Report
I am creating a document using the KOMA-Script class scrreprt. It is to be handed in and the requirements specify the following page layout:
A4 paper
One-sided print
Margins: left 3.5 cm (2.5cm ...
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Use a user-defined variable before loading package
I'm trying to make a template where I can specify a draft version, and some text will appear in the footer noting that it's a draft, with today's date. I also define a function that allows text to be ...
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Background image full with geometry magnification
I'm trying to create a titlepage with a background image (full bleed). It works when using either eso-pic or wallpaper packages as mentioned in How to create a background image on title page with ...
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Papersize option in geometry package is misbehaving. Potential conflict with other packages? [duplicate]
I'm trying to set a custom paper size for my document via the geometry package. However, whenever I add the [papersize={x,y}] option, I get the wrong output. The document compiles successfully (with ...
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How to generate a PDF with a single table with page borders tight around it?
This is the opposite of commonly asked questions: I don't want a LaTeX table to fit on the page, instead, I want the page to fit tightly around a single table in all 4 directions. In essence, I want ...
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How to vertically wrapped page around formula?
thank you for your time.
I wonder if it is possible to render one phrase only in latex and make sure the document is wrapped around the phrase (no bigger that it need to be)? I know you can set the ...
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Standard way to enforce the following format requirement, especially the margin requirement of 2.5cm all around
I am working on a latex file and also need to meet the following format requirement:
Font : Times New Roman
Font Size : 12 point
Margin : 2.5 cm all round
Spacing : Single-line spacing
PDF ...
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Adjust Frame Option of pdfpages-Package
I'm currently writing a report for university and want to include some pdf documents as appendices. I'm using pdfpages (of course) to include these pdfs but i ran into one small problem:
I scaled the ...
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Why does TeXstudio generate cropped PDFs?
In a previous question, I asked about how to add extra margins for todo notes without affecting the original geometry of the page. The answer by Steven B. Segletes is satisfactory, but the output is ...
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How do I expand page width to handle wider marginparwidths while leaving everything else as it is?
I would like to be able to use todonotes package, but the amount of marginparwidth on right and left are relatively small. The space available for margins is too small that I want to increase the page ...
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\newgeometry landscape only works once
I have a document in 'portrait' format, and would like to include short sections in 'landscape' format.
The geometry package works nicely, but only allows me to insert one such section. The second ...
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Changing geometry after loading the geometry package
I've looked at some related questions and can't solve this.
I have a common LaTeX file where I load the geometry package among others.
This file (called pre.tex here) is a common, site wide file ...
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Setting margins for custom paper size doesn't work
For a book, the printer required a paper size of 23*32 cm with margins 2cm (left/right) and 3cm (top/bottom). Before I tried to incorporate this in Latex everything was fine but with this new page ...
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How to change the style of the header/footer depending on the parity of the page?
My question
I am trying to have a precise control on the size and on the content of the header and footer of the pages, with different configurations:
if the page the first page
on odd pages
on even ...
