<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Hi Vladimir Lomov</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thanks for your reply. I just used this code, but still it does not give me the right margins.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Here what I am getting with this code:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Left/Right margin: 4.1 cm (instead of 3.8 cm)</span></div><div><span>top/bottom margin: 3.1/3.3 cm (instead of 2.54 cm)</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>:(</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Mostafa</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr
size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Mostafa ali <wremostafa@yahoo.com>; General TeX discussion and questions <texhax@tug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [texhax] Problem with page layout<br></font><br>Hello,<br><br>** Mostafa ali [2011-08-25 12:02:24 -0700]:<br><br>> Hi <br><br>> I am writing my thesis using Latex. my thesis specification is as follows: top and bottom margin should be 1 in and left and right margin should be 1.5 in. The size of the paper is standard (8.5*11 inch) or (21.6*17.94cm). Now I have used the following code in my STY file. but for some reason I am not getting the correct margin. I know this is very trivial, but couldn't fix it
:(. <br><br>[...]<br><br>Use geometry package. For example, add following into preamble of your document<br><code><br>\usepackage{geometry}<br>\geometry{letterpaper, hmargin=1.5in, vmargin=1in}<br></code><br><br>To understand and tune example see documentation of geometry package.<br><br>---<br>WBR, Vladimir Lomov<br><br><br>-- <br>Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.<br> -- W.C. Fields<br>_______________________________________________<br>TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" target="_blank">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br>Mailing list archives: <a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/texhax/</a><br>More links: <a href="http://tug.org/begin.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/begin.html</a><br><br>Automated subscription management: <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax"
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