Hi John,
thanks for the remark, but I *read* Rich's suggestion carefully. In fact I had already tried out what he suggested before bothering the list with the question. It does not work because what LyX understands for "margins" in the Layout>Document>Margins dialogue is the white space between the edge of the paper and the main body text. At least that's what I can gather from my tests. But I need to take into consideration everything else that is printed outside the main body text: headers, page numbers, etc. --that's what I mean by "text block." As rich suggested in a separate post the answer is in the LaTeX Companion book. So that's where I'll go next.
Stefano
On Aug 14, 2004, at 5:18 PM, John Coppens wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 14:59:45 +1200 Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Rich,
thank for the suggestion, but my problem is not changing the paper
size. I need to change the size of the text block. I do not really
care about the paper size and I was hopeful that LaTex/LyX could work
out all the other parameters (left and right margin, inner additional
margin, etc.) once given the size of the text block, which, as far as I
understand it, is the most basic typesetting item.
Best,
StefanoHi Stefano.
Read the instructions from Rich _carefully_. At the place he indicates,
you change the margins, so this way you can determine the size of the text
block... Page width - left margin - right margin = text width. Same for
vertical.
Note that the page he indicates (custom margins) needs at least left,
right, top and bottom margins (you can leave the rest untouched).
John
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