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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">please use the geometry package to adjust the margins<br>
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as far as I know amsbook does not have any margins parameters on its own, the ones you mention are from the LaTeX kernel, and the have to 'fit' together<br>
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The geoemtry package does a much better job at this and has many configuration options such as handling binding etc (AFAIR)<br>
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Another this is that it will write the paper size to the output, something that the standard classes does not do.<br>
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/Lars Madsen<br>
Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics<br>
Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University<br>
Mere info: <a href="http://au.dk/daleif@imf" tabindex="0">http://au.dk/daleif@imf</a> / More information:
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF775354"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> texhax [texhax-bounces@tug.org] on behalf of Dr A K Hannaby [keith_hannaby@mathshelp.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 10 March 2014 17:05<br>
<b>To:</b> texhax@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [texhax] Cropping rectangle should form reference boundary for book<br>
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<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.</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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The A4 page is therefore no longer of any interest to me.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like my “binding” margin to be 26mm and the “free” margin to be 12mm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Likewise, the margin (clear space) at the top to be 14mm and at the bottom 12mm.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But no matter how I juggle the AMSBOOK parameters, I cannot properly relate the standard values like:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\topmargin}{mm} % </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\headheight}{mm} %</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\textheight}{mm} %</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\topskip}{mm} %</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\footskip}{mm} %</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\leftmargin}{0mm} %</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{mm}</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">\setlength{\evensidemargin}{mm}</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to the simple values I want.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It appears that some values need to be NEGATIVE to work, and also changing values sometimes produces non-linear effects.</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.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Alternatively, is it possible to convince Latex that the cropping rectangle is, indeed, the reference rectangle?</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.]</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Keith</p>
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