[comp.text.tex] margins in TEX ? single page layout

ueltschi@.iam.unibe.ch (Andreas Ueltschi) (10/11/90)

I lost the article with the question. Instead of that my answer:

The page layout produce by LATEX is:

_____________________________________________________
|
|    1in
|
| 1in *______________________________________________
|     |
|     |               _______________________________ 
|     |\oddsidemargin |
|     |\evensidemargin|  \textwidth
|     |               |
|     |               |  in this box the text will appear
|     |               |

This will mean:

TEX will place the upper-left corner one inch down and right from the
corner of the physical page. If you set now for instance oddside and evenside
margins to 0pt you get the text one inch right from the physical margin of the
page. If you would put it more left use a negative margin (or higher equals
negativ topmargin). You have to put this in a your own .sty file!

Hope that will help
                          Andy