[XeTeX] book size options --- help

Nicolas Vaughan nivaca at gmail.com
Wed May 27 04:33:25 CEST 2009


Hi Rembrandt,
Thanks for your reply.
I use this:

\usepackage[paperwidth=170truemm,paperheight=240truemm]{geometry}
\usepackage[cam,width=170truemm,height=240truemm,center]{crop},

but with no results (I see no cropmarks).  Any ideas?

Cheers!

Nicolas



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:04 PM, Rembrandt Wolpert <wolpert at uark.edu> wrote:
> Use the crop package. First you invoke geometry, then crop. Very easy. (It
> should be on your system, I think.) Use truecm for your measurements (this
> was discussed some time ago on this list). The documentation is at
> http://www.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/crop/
>
> Rembrandt
>
>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 19:50, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to all.
>> BTW, is it easy to add cropmarks to the PDF?
>> Nicolas
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Alan Munn <amunn at msu.edu> wrote:
>> > At 4:33 PM -0500 5/26/09, Nicolas Vaughan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dear all,
>> >> This a problem I've had ever since I began working in LaTeX, and I
>> >> still have it in XeTeX. Perhaps someone can help me with it.
>> >> I have been requested to typeset in XeLaTeX a math book of this size:
>> >> 170mm x 240mm. I must have these margins: top: 25mm, bottom: 30mm;
>> >> outside: 25mm; inside: 25mm.
>> >> But I don't know exactly how to change this parameters.
>> >> Should I use the geometry package? Or the memoir class?
>> >> Any recommendations?
>> >
>> > Memoir indeed has extensive page layout parameters, and they are well
>> > documented.
>> >
>> > Or if you're happy with the book class, then you can use geometry:
>> >
>> > \usepackage[paperwidth={170mm},paperheight={240mm}, tmargin={25mm},
>> > bmargin={30mm}, inner={25mm}, outer={25mm}, twoside]{geometry}
>> >
>> > Should give you what you want. (You can also use geometry with memoir
>> > AFAIK.)
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
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