llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you
much agravation.
I have now worked out about a misunderstanding.
Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off
course exactly correct.
What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to
use the
wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use
in offices.
For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so
when I put
my book into a home or office binder it looks professional.
It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no
notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional
standards.
Would you not be kind to us people who we will call "Wrong Siders"
and tell
us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the
settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space.
I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text.
Uwe probably knows the answer to this. He is the source of all LaTeX
knowledge. ;-) But if you want to figure this out, look in section 6.4
of the memoir manual. The terminology here is different from what you
usually see. Memoir calls the inner margin the "spinemargin" and the
outer margin the "foredge", and it provides two ways to set these. So
one way to do this is to play with \setrlmarginsandblock and
\setrlmargins. It's probably the former you want, and if you want to set
inner and outer margins directly, then the formula is:
\setlrmarginsandblock{INNER}{OUTER}{*}
Your page size has to be set already---which it presumably is---and this
will set the width of the text area to be \pagewidth - \spinemargin -
\foredge, which is what you'd expect.
Probably the better way to do this would be to play with \stocksize and
\paperwidth, etc. The stocksize is the width of what you're printing on.
The paperwidth is supposed to be how wide the paper is after its
trimmed. You're not trimming, but you can pretend you are, and use the
trimmed bit as binding width.
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in the
spirit of the package.
Richard
