[texhax] Cropping rectangle should form reference boundary for book

[Dr A K Hannaby]

William
The cropping rectangle is effectively the actual paper size of the finished
book.
Therefore it would be nice if a margin of 12mm could be directly read-in and
be referenced as, say, \setlength{marginrelcropmark}{12mm}.
To put it another way...  where are the datum points (0, 0) in the \amsbook
class?

As a matter of interest, I propose to remove all of my own "\setlength"
settings, and then use the "\the" command to detect what are the base values
and purpose of the various parameters.
Regards
Keith



-----Original Message-----
From: William Adams [mailto:will.adams at frycomm.com] 
Sent: 10 March 2014 17:15
To: TeX List
Cc: Dr A K Hannaby
Subject: Re: [texhax] Cropping rectangle should form reference boundary for
book

On Mar 10, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Dr A K Hannaby wrote:

> Alternatively, is it possible to convince Latex that the cropping
rectangle is, indeed, the reference rectangle?

I don't understand what you mean by ``cropping rectangle'' and ``reference
rectangle''.

If you're trying to influence the crop and other .pdf boxes, this is easily
done:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/19497/how-do-you-setup-a-tex-document
-to-self-publish-a-book-online/130843#130843

you can adapt this to other documentclasses, and pdftex has similar
capabilities for setting the boxes.

William

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