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 More options Jul 31 2012, 6:31 pm
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
From: "Zorro" <haveagoh...@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:31:59 +0100
Local: Tues, Jul 31 2012 6:31 pm
Subject: Re: Basic typesetting questions

"Peter Flynn" <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote in message

news:a7r0qeFc10U1@mid.individual.net...

> On 31/07/12 11:51, Zorro wrote:
>> "Peter Flynn" <pe...@silmaril.ie> wrote in message
>> news:a7oasoFu19U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> On 30/07/12 16:10, Zorro wrote:
>>>> Can someone give me the commands to construct a paper that has this
>>>> typesetting?

>>> Most of these are the defaults for the article class at 10pt.

>>>> "Typeset the abstract in 8 pt roman with baselineskip of 10 pt, making
>>>> an
>>>> indentation of 0.25 inches on the left and right margins."

>>>> "The main text should be in 10~pt roman, single spaced with
>>>> baselineskip
>>>> of
>>>> 13~pt. Text area (including copyright block) is 8 inches high and 5
>>>> inches
>>>> wide for the first page.
>>>> Text area (excluding running title) is 7.7 inches high and
>>>> 5 inches wide for subsequent pages."

>>> Information about this copyright block is needed in order to allow for
>>> the extra 0.3in. You haven't provided that information.

>> I don't know what a copyright block is;

> But you referred to it. You presumably know what it is, if you are
> planning on submitting to a publisher and have seen a copy of their
> desired output.

>> whatever it is I can't imagine it's a crucial inclusion at this stage.

> It is critical to know what it is and where it goes, as it will majorly
> affect how you make the switch between an 8" high first page and the
> 7.7" high subsequent pages.

Can now we leave the copyright block out of this exchange, please.

>> How do I adjust the text margins?

> You use additional parameters in the optional argument of the
> \usepackage command for the geometry package, eg

> \usepackage[textwidth=5in,textheight=7.7in,left=.75in,top=.5in]{geometry}

Preamble? If so, I want to know how to get something in the main body of the
text *different from all the rest of the text*.
While I am grateful for your giving your knowledge, I confess I find your
means of expression obscure. In order to understand these things, one needs
to know exactly where in the document, relative to the desired changes,
these things need to go (relative to \begin{document} or whatever). And it
would help further is you could say something like <BLAH> in order to show
the space in the document where the text affected by the command, or
whatever it is you talk about, should go.

For example, could you advise on the suitable insertions here:

\documentclass[10pt, A4]{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=5in,textheight=7.7in,left=.75in,top=.5in]{geometry}
<more preamble>
\begin{document}

<I would like to say something in different margins than what I have stated
in my preamble>
...

<Now I would like to say something in precisely the margins I have stated in
my preamble.>

\end{document}

---

You reply will take the form, I hope, of something that takes the format:

\documentclass[10pt, A4]{article}
\usepackage[textwidth=5in,textheight=7.7in,left=.75in,top=.5in]{geometry}
<more preamble>
\begin{document}

\somecommand{...}
<I would like to say something in different margins than what I have stated
in my preamble>
\end{somecommand}

\end{document}

and in the place of 'somecommand' you tell me exactly what is supposed to be
written. Unless I have completely misunderstood how it's done.


 
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