[XeTeX] centering layout with geometry package

[Daniel Greenhoe]

Hello Susan,

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Susan Dittmar <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de> wrote:
> I had a glance at the current geometry documentation. Unfortunately, to me it
> looks like what you want is not implemented.
> ...
> Still my remark concerning having both "centering" and "margin=10mm" in the
> options list holds true. They affect the same internal values, one
> overwriting the other.

Yes, that was my mistake. Thank you very much for bringing it to my attention!

Dan

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Susan Dittmar <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
>
> I had a glance at the current geometry documentation. Unfortunately, to me it
> looks like what you want is not implemented.
>
>> > Quoting Daniel Greenhoe (dgreenhoe at gmail.com):
>> >> Using the geometry package, is there any way to automatically (without
>> >> using layouthoffset and layoutvoffset) to center a layout area on a
>> >> physical page? The default seems for the layout to be pushed into the
>> >> upper left corner of the physical page. Here is an example:
>> >>
>> >> \documentclass{book}
>> >> \setlength{\parskip}{0mm}%
>> >> \setlength{\parindent}{0mm}%
>> >> \usepackage{geometry}
>> >> \geometry{
>> >>   xetex,truedimen,paper=a4paper,
>> >>   centering,twoside=false,
>> >>   ignoreall,
>> >>   layoutheight=200mm,layoutwidth=100mm,
>> >>   margin=10mm,
>> >>   nomarginpar,noheadfoot,
>> >>   showframe,showcrop
>> >>   }
>> >> \begin{document}%
>> >> abc
>> >> \end{document}%
>
> There seems to be no way of asking for a centered layout area on the
> physical page. Looks like you do have to set layouthoffset and
> layoutvoffset manually.
>
> Still my remark concerning having both "centering" and "margin=10mm" in the
> options list holds true. They affect the same internal values, one
> overwriting the other.
>
> Hope that helps, at least a bit,
>
>        Susan
>
>
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