Hi Karen,

click on "use geometry package" just below paper size and type standard units
(e.g. cm, mm) behind the margin size. Did the same "mistake" two weeks ago...

Cheers,

Arne

On 27-Jan-01 Karen P. Watkins wrote:
> Hello,
> I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.1.6.  I am VERY impressed and am
> planning on using it for my thesis work.  It is very intuitive and
> straight forward.  I have completed the tutorial and read through the
> users guide (mostly).  The only thing (so far) that I can not seem to
> get to work is changing the margin sizes in the document.  Specifically,
> under Layout/Document/Paper, when I type anything into Margins/Top,
> Bottom, Left, Right, the OK button grays not allowing me activate these
> changes.  According to the documentation, you must have geometry package
> installed to use this option.  I looked through the LaTeXConfig.lyx file
> and it shows that I have the geometry package installed.  What am I
> doing wrong?  I have Red Hat 6.2.  I downloaded rpm binaries from
> ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ file name: lyx-1.1.6-1.i386.rpm.  I also
> downloaded and installed xforms-0.88-3.i386.rpm.  I appreciate any
> insight.
> 
> Thanks
> Karen

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