On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 01:44 +0000, Shelagh Manton wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:10:51 +0000, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:43:31 -0500,
> > Matt Price wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >> get documentsl ooking about how I want them to -- the default output of
> >> the latex export has way too much whitespace for my tastes -- but I
> >> guess I hsould be able to figure those issues out somehow.  thanks
> >> again!
> >> matt
> >> 
> >> 
> > If it's the margins giving you too much white space (a common complaint
> > from people moving to latex from other types of word or document
> > procssors), you could try something along these lines:
> > 
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> > #+latex_header: \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry} #+latex-header:
> > \geometry{verbose,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=3cm,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=3cm}
> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> > 
> > untested.  change "letterpaper" to your actual paper size, of course.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > eric
> > 
> Also the fullpage.sty package will do this for you too. Of course you 
> need to name the size of your paper in the documentclass.
> 
> \usepackage[options](fullpage)

thanks for this.  i'll give it a go -- and can i set this permanently
somewhere in my org conf file -- is it something like:

(setq latex_header ("\usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}",
"\geometry{verbose,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=3cm,lmargin=3cm,rmargin=3cm}" ))
anyway thanks so much for all your help thus far!

matt