[OS X TeX] 1/2" margins

[Alain Schremmer]

Ross Moore wrote:

> Hi Alain,
>
> On 01/11/2006, at 12:01 PM, Alain Schremmer wrote:
>
>> Essentially, my setup is as follows (all files are \documentclass 
>> [11pt]{book}):
>>
>>    Book.tex with \include{Exercise}
>>    Homework.tex with \include{Exercise}
>>    Exercise.tex
>>
>> The idea being to be able to print the Exercise by itself under the  
>> heading of Homework.tex.
>>
>> But then, to minimize the paper used for Homework, I thought of  
>> using smaller margins.  So, as per your suggestion above, I used
>> \usepackage{geometry}
>> with
>>
>>    \geometry{paperheight=11in, paperwidth=8.5in, top=0.5in,     
>> bottom=0.5in, left=0.5in, right=0.5in}
>>
>> commented out in Book.tex and uncommented in Homework.tex. It works  
>> fine except for the fact that  the default of \usepackage{geometry}  
>> is not the same as that of  \documentclass[11pt]{book}.
>
>
> In a Terminal window, try:
>
>   view `kpsewhich bk11.clo`

gives me

    Last login: Tue Oct 31 22:37:53 on ttyp1
    Welcome to Darwin!
    tcsh: /sw/bin/init.csh: No such file or directory.
    [Alain:~] alainsch% view `kpsewhich bk11.clo`

    %%
    %% This is file `bk11.clo',
    %% generated with the docstrip utility.
    %%
    %% The original source files were:
    %%
    %% classes.dtx  (with options: `11pt,bk')
    %%
    %% This is a generated file.
    %%
    %% Copyright 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001
    %% The LaTeX3 Project and any individual authors listed elsewhere
    %% in this file.
    %%
    %% This file was generated from file(s) of the LaTeX base system.
    %% --------------------------------------------------------------
    %%
    %% It may be distributed and/or modified under the
    %% conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.2
    %% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
    %% The latest version of this license is in
    %%    http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
    %% and version 1.2 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX
    </local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/latex/base/bk11.clo" [readonly]
    242L, 8602C

> or
>   more `kpsewhich bk11.clo`

gives me something similar.

What do I do with that or what am I doing wrong?
Regards
--schremmer
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