[XeTeX] book size options --- help

[Nicolas Vaughan]

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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