[XeTeX] book size options --- help

[Peter Seibel]

You can also pretty easily get crop marks with the memoir class. I'm
just getting up to speed on it myself but that part was pretty
painless.

Start your document with the 'showtrims' option:

  \documentclass[showtrims]{memoir}

Set up your stock size, etc.

  \setstocksize{11in}{8.5in}
  \settrimmedsize{9in}{6in}{*}
  \settrims{1in}{1.25in} % so the trimed page is centered in the stock
  \setlrmarginsandblock{.5in}{.5in}{*}
  \setulmarginsandblock{1in}{1in}{*}
  \checkandfixthelayout

then include one of the trim styles like:

  \trimFrame

or

  \quarkmarks

There are some other trim styles which should be mentioned in the
memoir manual near these two.

-Peter

P.S. As I said, I'm just learning this stuff myself so if I've done
something irredeemably dumb, hopefully someone more experienced will
chime in to set us straight.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>



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