[XeTeX] book size options --- help

Nicolas Vaughan nivaca at gmail.com
Wed May 27 05:21:00 CEST 2009


Hi Peter,
Thanks for your advice. I love the memoir class, but it has so many
options, it's difficult to manage.
Best wishes,
Nicolas



2009/5/26 Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com>:
> 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
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Alan Munn                                               amunn at msu.edu
>>>> > Department of Linguistics
>>>> > and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages               Tel.
>>>> >  517-355-7491
>>>> > Michigan State University, East Lansing MI 48824 USA    Fax
>>>> > 517-432-2736
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> 人有不為也而後可有為
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Seibel
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> http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/
>


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