In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Susan G. Kleinmann" writes:
>Hi Hakan --
>
>You asked:
>> I have latex 2e-7 installed, but I can't find a4.sty a4wide.sty, in which
>> package are they?
>
>I think the Latex-2e approach is not to use .sty files, but to use .cls
>(class) files. Support for a4 letter paper is built into the article.cls
>file, for example, but the option a4paper.
>So, to get output formatted for a4 paper, you would invoke the article style
>this way:
>
>\documentclass[titlepage, oneside, a4paper, 11pt]{article}
>\usepackage{html}
>\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
>
>where the options "titlepage", "oneside", "11pt", etc., are all
>optional (!); I just put them there to illustrate that you can have more
>than 1 option in the []. I also added the statements regarding
>"usepackage" as a further example of package-loading in latex-2e.
>
>If you'd like to read more about this, you might want to get a copy
>of the boot "The LaTeX Companion", by Goosens, Mittelbach, and Samarin.
>
>HTH,
>Susan Kleinmann
>
As the normal a4paper is not very wide, my office mate wrote a package
to get bigger text-width.
It can be invoked vai \usepackage{realA4}.
Options are nohead, if no headers are used, and symetric, to place the
text in the middle of the page
greetings,
jan
% realA4.sty
%
% REALLY use A4 paper (based on longlines.sty)
%
% (c) 1995, 1996, Christian Cachin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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%
% USAGE: (in LaTeX2e only)
%
% \documentclass{anyclass}
%
% \usepackage[nohead,symmetric]{realA4}
%
% The optional `nohead' specifies that no headings will be used in the document
% and therefore, the space reserved for it by LaTeX can be used for text.
%
% The optional `symmetric' specifies that even with the `twosided' option
% the main text is centered on the page.
%
%
% IMPLEMENTATION:
%
% The following is just the code to calculate \textwidth and several widths
% that depend on it, copied 1-to-1 from classes.dtx.
%
\def\fileversion{1.1}
\def\filedate{1996/07/23}
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{realA4}[\filedate\space\fileversion\ the real A4 page layout]
\DeclareOption{nohead}{%
\advance\textheight by \headheight%
\advance\textheight by \headsep%
\headheight 0pt%
\headsep 0pt}
\DeclareOption{symmetric}{%
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\setlength\paperheight {297mm}
\setlength\paperwidth {210mm}
\voffset 0pt
\topmargin 0pt
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\textheight 54\baselineskip
\or
\textheight 47\baselineskip
\or
\textheight 43\baselineskip
\fi
\advance\textheight by \topskip
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\ProcessOptions
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\setlength\oddsidemargin [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tempdima}
\addtolength\oddsidemargin {-1in}
\setlength\marginparwidth [EMAIL PROTECTED]@tempdima}
\addtolength\marginparwidth {-0.4in}
\else
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\addtolength\oddsidemargin {-1in}
\setlength\marginparwidth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\addtolength\marginparwidth {-.4in}
\fi
\ifdim \marginparwidth >2in
\setlength\marginparwidth{2in}
\fi
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\setlength\evensidemargin {\paperwidth}
\addtolength\evensidemargin{-2in}
\addtolength\evensidemargin{-\textwidth}
\addtolength\evensidemargin{-\oddsidemargin}
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Institut fuer theor. Informatik Tel. +41 1 632 7412
ETH Zentrum, IFW Fax. +41 1 632 1172
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
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URL of my hompage http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/camenisc
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