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Fri Jun 29 06:25:36 CEST 2007

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>    1. Margins 1 inch all round (David Owen)
>    2. Re: Margins 1 inch all round (E. Krishnan)
>    3. Re: Margins 1 inch all round (Josy P. Pullockara)
>    4. Re: Margins 1 inch all round (S. venkataraman)
>    5. Re: Let us work on WinEdt (Shefalika Samaddar)
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> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:51:37 -0400
> From: "David Owen" <dowen at carib-link.net>
> Subject: [Tugindia] Margins 1 inch all round
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> Hi, Everyone,
> I shall be happy if someone could tell me how to type a manuscript (Latex)
> so that I get margins of 1'' all round. I have tried several suggestions but
> they just are not exactly 1'' all round. Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks alot.
> D.Owen
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:15:10 +0530 (IST)
> From: "E. Krishnan" <ekmath at asianetindia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Margins 1 inch all round
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> On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, David Owen wrote:
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> > I shall be happy if someone could tell me how to type a manuscript
> > (Latex) so that I get margins of 1'' all round. I have tried several
> > suggestions but they just are not exactly 1'' all round.
>
>
> Did you try "\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry]" ?
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> --
> Krishnan
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:26:08 +0530
> From: "Josy P. Pullockara" <josy at ctfd.cmmacs.ernet.in>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Margins 1 inch all round
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> On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:51 -0400, David Owen wrote:
> > I shall be happy if someone could tell me how to type a manuscript
> > (Latex) so that I get margins of 1'' all round. I have tried several
> > suggestions but they just are not exactly 1'' all round. Any help
> > will be appreciated.
>
> Try
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1in, right=1in]{geometry}
> \begin{document}
> bla bla bla bla bla bla ...
> \end{document}
>
> Regards.
> --
> Josy P. Pullockara <josy at ctfd.cmmacs.ernet.in>
> National Aerospace Laboratories
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:58:23 +0530
> From: "S. venkataraman" <svenkat at ignou.ac.in>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Margins 1 inch all round
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tugindia-bounces at tug.org [mailto:tugindia-bounces at tug.org] On
> Behalf
> > Of David Owen
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 10:22 PM
> > To: tugindia at tug.org
> > Subject: [Tugindia] Margins 1 inch all round
> >
> > Hi, Everyone,
> > I shall be happy if someone could tell me how to type a manuscript
> (Latex)
> > so that I get margins of 1'' all round. I have tried several
> suggestions
> > but they just are not exactly 1'' all round. Any help will be
> appreciated.
> > Thanks alot.
> > D.Owen
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> You can use geometry package as suggested by Dr. E. Krishnan.
> An alternative is the package fullpage.sty.
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/ctan/help/Catalogue/entries/fullpage.html
> [S. venkataraman]
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:44:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Shefalika Samaddar <shefalika99 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Tugindia] Let us work on WinEdt
> To: Duvvuri Venu Gopal <venugopal_duvvuri at rediffmail.com>,      TUGIndia
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> 27.06.07
>   I have downloaded MikTeX. It is working fine. Thank you so much.
> however, I have downloaded Kile in Linux and I find it much easier than
> WinEdt. You can share your opinion as well.
>   Regards
>   Shefalika
>
> Duvvuri Venu Gopal <venugopal_duvvuri at rediffmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 Shefalika Samaddar wrote :
> > Being new to this world, I started with downloading the packages
> required in Windows XP platform. In WinEdt I am able to create small tex
> file. How do I complie and how do I get the .ps or .pdf file from Win Edt
> menu?
>
> The best thing I suggest is Read the beginlatex.pdf (Formatting
> information by Peter Flynn) available at www.tug.org. It has every details
> regarding installation of TeX (on various platforms) and using different
> editors like WinEdt etc.
>
> What is the package(s) you have downloaded? MikTeX is good for Windows and
> the complete MikTeX is about 400 mb and it can be downloaded from
> www.tug.org. If you have a very good connection it will take about 1 to 1
> 1/2 hrs to down load it.
>
> D. Venugopal

I feel teXnic center is more easy to work with than the WinEdt,. .. the
teXnic center comes with the mixtex pacakge and its free too unlike  WinEdt
which needs subscription. The MikTex is also available on torrents;  for
those of you who are having a slow connection it might help...

-- 
Kewal. Deshpande