Re: interacting with word processors (opeonffice, word)

From: Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: interacting with word processors (opeonffice, word)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 01:44:40 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hkft68$94n$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zl3pjatg.wl%ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk

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)

Shelagh
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