From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Paper Size for Exported LaTeX Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:40:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87h9yxf0u6.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> References: <87lho9482f.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <8738ah88fv.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> <87vbndaxf8.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37262) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgj32-0005lb-0C for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:41:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgj2x-00027g-1N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:41:03 -0400 Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([2001:808:114:2::50]:47054) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xgj2w-00027c-QC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:40:58 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620335B85D for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id TSiluEAb9kKV for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:40:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (99-229.echostar.pl [213.156.99.229]) by msg.wmi.amu.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0EE555B857 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2014 01:40:56 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <87vbndaxf8.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2014-10-22, at 00:08, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > So, I guess I need to explicitly change the L/R and top/bottom margins. > > Here's what I do using emacs/latex without Org: > > \setlength{\textheight}{9.25in} > \setlength{\textwidth}{6.75in} > \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0in} > \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0in} > \setlength{\topmargin}{-0.6in} > > Can I just put the above somewhere near the beginning of my .org file? > Or, is there a "better" way? ;-) Please don't do this! There /is/ a better way. What you're doing is very low-level; the canonical way to change such settings is to use the geometry package. Quoting from http://www.ctan.org/pkg/geometry : --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- The package provides an easy and flexible user interface to customize page layout, implementing auto-centering and auto-balancing mechanisms so that the users have only to give the least description for the page layout. For example, if you want to set each margin 2cm without header space, what you need is just \usepackage[margin=3D2cm,nohead]{geometry}. The package knows about all the standard paper sizes, so that the user need not know what the nominal =E2=80=98real=E2=80=99 dimensions of the p= aper are, just its standard name (such as a4, letter, etc.). --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Protip: if you're on a Linux system, typing texdoc geometry at the terminal will give you the docs for this package. (I don't know whether this works with Windows or Mac.) Hth, --=20 Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Adam Mickiewicz University