[OS X TeX] 1/2" margins

[Alain Schremmer]

Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> The default of the book.cls is
> \ExecuteOptions{letterpaper,10pt,twoside,onecolumn,final,openright}
>
> Thus you would have to replace 10pt by 11pt.
>
> However, I consider your settings
>
>>> paperheight=11in, paperwidth=8.5in, top=0.5in,  bottom=0.5in,  
>>> left=0.5in, right=0.5in}
>>
>
> ill advised, since the default dimensions of the text body in the  
> book.cls are already pretty large.

I agree and don't like 11pt but the readers for whom the book is 
designed do.

> If you really would like to save  some paper I would recommend to use 
> the standard 10pt font size  instead of 11pt, which is in my view also 
> easier on the eye.

I will make another try with the students.

On the other hand, I have a feeling that you may have missed the point 
of what I am trying to do which is to have the standard book class for 
the book, complete with the included exercises, but, when I print the 
exercises separately to be handed out as homework, to use the standard 
1/2" margins on a 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper.

What Stengel suggested works very nicely, that is I have the default 
setting for the "book cum exercise" and the 1/2" setting for the 
"exercise as homework" except that the default setting of the geometry 
package is not the same as the default of the book class which I would 
like to keep.

Regards
--schremmer

>
> Claus
>
>
>
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 2:01, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Frank STENGEL wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Le 11 oct. 06 à 20:32, Alain Schremmer a écrit :
>>>
>>>>
>>>> For some documents, though, I would prefer the margins to be  1/2"  
>>>> all around an 8 1/2 by 11 page.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to achieve that by renewing something?
>>>>
>>>> (I don't even know how to get 1/2" margins as I got lost in   
>>>> Companion2ed.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Try using the geometry.sty package. It gives you a lot of control  
>>> on  the geometry of the page. what you want could be achieved by  
>>> the lines
>>>
>>> \usepackage{geometry}
>>> \geometry{paperheight=11in, paperwidth=8.5in, top=0.5in,   
>>> bottom=0.5in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in}
>>>
>>> There is some fine print regarding headers and footers, so be sure  
>>> to  read the documentation...
>>>
>> Earlier on I ran into a problem and got everything on the  backburner 
>> for a while.
>>
>> Essentially, my setup is as follows (all files are \documentclass 
>> [11pt]{book}):
>>
>>    Book.tex with \include{Exercise}
>>    Homework.tex with \include{Exercise}
>>    Exercise.tex
>>
>> The idea being to be able to print the Exercise by itself under the  
>> heading of Homework.tex.
>>
>> But then, to minimize the paper used for Homework, I thought of  
>> using smaller margins.  So, as per your suggestion above, I used
>> \usepackage{geometry}
>> with
>>
>>    \geometry{paperheight=11in, paperwidth=8.5in, top=0.5in,     
>> bottom=0.5in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in}
>>
>> commented out in Book.tex and uncommented in Homework.tex. It works  
>> fine except for the fact that  the default of \usepackage{geometry}  
>> is not the same as that of  \documentclass[11pt]{book}.
>>
>> So, my question is how to change that default. The manual mentions:
>>
>>    One can set up a configuration file to make default options. To do
>>    this, produce a file geometry.cfg containing an \ExecuteOptions
>>    macro, for example,
>>    \ExecuteOptions{a4paper,dvips}
>>    and install it somewhere TEX can find it.
>>    The options specified in the geometry.cfg can be cleared by option
>>    reset.
>>
>> This would seem to do it but I have no idea how to let the default  
>> be that of \documentclass[11pt]{book}
>>
>> I have a complete minisetup on which to try things (things are in  
>> fact a bit more complicated than above as I have a bunvh of  
>> renewcommands to show/not-show various things.) so it is not that I  
>> am afraid of demolishing things. It is simply that I have no idea  
>> where to start. Here, Companion2ed is no help to me.
>>
>> Very hopeful regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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