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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Tug<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When writing a book, it is an advantage to see the placement of what one writes on the finished page area – for both odd and even pages.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So I have centred (both horizontally and vertically) my cropping rectangle for my pages to be: 165 x 205 on the A4 210 x 297 page.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The A4 page is therefore no longer of any interest to me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I would like my “binding” margin to be 26mm and the “free” margin to be 12mm<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Likewise, the margin (clear space) at the top to be 14mm and at the bottom 12mm.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But no matter how I juggle the AMSBOOK parameters, I cannot properly relate the standard values like:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\topmargin}{mm} % <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\headheight}{mm} %<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\textheight}{mm} %<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\topskip}{mm} %<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\footskip}{mm} %<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\leftmargin}{0mm} %<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{mm}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>\setlength{\evensidemargin}{mm}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>to the simple values I want.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It appears that some values need to be NEGATIVE to work, and also changing values sometimes produces non-linear effects.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can someone explain, for example, which parameters are intended to be independently set as primary values, and which others are then consequential.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alternatively, is it possible to convince Latex that the cropping rectangle is, indeed, the reference rectangle?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[I have, in fact, juggled the numbers to get what I want, but if someone asked me to change a parameter, I would again really not know where to start.]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Keith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>