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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-marginmanual.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-marginmanual.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..55669eb2d3c --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-marginmanual.html @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label marginmanual</title> +</head><body> +<h3>How to set up page layout “by hand”</h3> +<p/>So you’re eager to do it yourself, notwithstanding the cautions + + outlined in “<a href="FAQ-changemargin.html">changing margins</a>”. +<p/>It’s important that you first start by familiarising yourself +with LaTeX’s page layout parameters. For example, see section C.5.3 of the +LaTeX manual (pp. 181-182), or corresponding sections in many of the other +good LaTeX manuals (see <a href="FAQ-books.html">LaTeX books</a>). +<p/>LaTeX controls the page layout with a number of parameters, which +allow you to change the distance from the edges of a page to the left +and top edges of your typeset text, the width and height of the text, +and the placement of other text on the page. However, they are +somewhat complex, and it is easy to get their interrelationships wrong +when redefining the page layout. The layout package defines a +<code>\</code><code>layout</code> command which draws a diagram of your existing page +layout, with the dimensions (but not their interrelationships) shown. +<p/>Even changing the text height and width, <code>\</code><code>textheight</code> and +<code>\</code><code>textwidth</code>, requires more care than you might expect: the height +should be set to fit a whole number of text lines (in terms of +multiples of <code>\</code><code>baselinskip</code>), and the width should be constrained +by the number of characters per line, as mentioned in +“<a href="FAQ-changemargin.html">changing margins</a>”. +<p/>Margins are controlled by two parameters: <code>\</code><code>oddsidemargin</code> and +<code>\</code><code>evensidemargin</code>, whose names come from the convention that +odd-numbered pages appear on the right-hand side (‘recto’) of a +two-page spread and even-numbered pages on the left-hand side +(‘verso’). Both parameters actually refer to the left-hand margin of +the relevant pages; in each case the right-hand margin is specified by +implication, from the value of <code>\</code><code>textwidth</code> and the width of the +paper. (In a one-sided document, which is the default in many +classes, including the standard <i>article</i> and <i>report</i> +classes, <code>\</code><code>oddsidemargin</code> stands for both.) +<p/>The +“origin” (the zero position) on the page is one inch from the top of +the paper and one inch from the left side; positive horizontal +measurements extend right across the page, and positive vertical +measurements extend down the page. Thus, the parameters +<code>\</code><code>evensidemargin</code>, <code>\</code><code>oddsidemargin</code> and <code>\</code><code>topmargin</code>, should +be set to be 1 inch less than the true margin; for margins closer to +the left and top edges of the page than 1 inch, the margin parameters +must be set to negative values. +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=marginmanual">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=marginmanual</a> +</body> |